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  Hispanicity and Educational Inequality: Risks, Opportunities and the Nation’s Future

  1/28/09 - Marta Tienda

  In this essay, I discuss the significance of the growing Hispanic presence through the lens of education. To frame the challenges — and promises — of Hispanics’ educational futures, I first provide a demographic retrospective, which brings into focus several features that bear on the demand for education and contours of inequality. These include the pace of population growth and diversification; the unprecedented generational transition; and aging of the majority White population...

• Achievement disparities between minority and nonminority students in suburban schools

  1/1/90 - Levine, Daniel U., Eubanks, Eugene E.

  National data show that in 1986, African-American (AA) and Hispanic (HS) 13-yr-old students with college-educated parents had average reading proficiency scores 16 and 13 points (respectively) below the average for comparable White students. Reading and spelling performance data for 5th-8th graders at a suburban school show that in 1988, AAs were near or above the national norm in spelling but were clearly below the national norm in reading comprehension. Data on AAs' performance in southern...

• An Exploration of the Relationship Between Ethnicity, Attention Problems, and Academic Achievement

  1/1/04 - Rabiner, David L., Murray, Desiree W., Schmid, Lorrie, Malone, Patrick S.

  There has been longstanding concern about achievement differences across ethnic groups. Inattention is a significant factor associated with underachievement, and higher ratings of inattention have been found for some minority groups. The present study examined the relationship between inattention and achievement across Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic first graders. Thirty-three teachers rated over 600 students on their academic achievement, inattentive classroom behavior...

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  Between two worlds: How young Latinos come of age in America

  1/19/10 - Pew Hispanic Center,

  "This report takes an in-depth look at Hispanics who are ages 16 to 25, a phase of life when young people make choices that-for better and worse-set their path to adulthood. For this particular ethnic group, it is also a time when they navigate the intricate, often porous borders between the two cultures they inhabit-American and Latin American. The report explores the attitudes, values, social behaviors, family characteristics, economic well-being, educational attainment and labor force...

• Evidence of a differential effect of ability grouping on the reading achievement growth of language-minority Hispanics

  1/1/08 - Robinson, Joseph P.

  Ability grouping is sometimes thought to exacerbate inequality by increasing achievement gaps; however, ability grouping may in fact benefit a fast growing and often marginalized student population: children from non-English-speaking home environments. The level-appropriate, small-group instruction received in reading ability groups may be particularly beneficial to these language-minority children, who are not regularly exposed to English at home. Focusing on Hispanics, who make up the...

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  Expaning and improving early education for Hispanics

  1/14/09 - The National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics,

  "In pursuing this work, the Task Force has given attention to the question of how to use early childhood education to improve the educational fortunes of all Hispanic children, including those from low SES, middle class, and high SES families. This is because, compared with their White counterparts, children from these Hispanic segments are doing less well academically, on average, from the time they start school. However, the Task Force has given highest priority to finding ways to improve...

• Hispanic Educational Attainment: The Effects of Family Background and Nativity

  1/1/95 - Wojtkiewicz, Roger A., Donato, Katharine M.

  This article investigates two sources of the difference in educational attainment between Hispanics and non-Hispanics: family background and nativity. Hispanics have fewer of the family background characteristics that lead to higher educational attainment. In addition, Hispanics are much more likely to be foreign born, a characteristic related to lower educational attainment. Authors' study examines the degree to which these differences in family background and nativity explain differences...

• More than one gap: Dropout rate gaps between and among Black, Hispanic, and White students

  1/1/08 - Carpenter, Dick M., II, Ramirez, Al

  The achievement gap, traditionally measured by test scores, also can be documented by dropout behavior. Examining dropout behavior among Black, White, and Hispanic students, with a particular focus on gaps within groups and not just between Whites and minorities, shows a clearer picture of the achievement gap. The results of our study show multiple achievement gaps both between and within groups, ultimately concluding that within-group gaps were often more significant than gaps between...

• Secondary Education Systemic Issues: Addressing Possible Contributors to a Leak in the Science Education Pipeline and Potential Solutions

  1/1/05 - Young, Hollie

  To maintain the legacy of cutting edge scientific innovation in the United States our country must address the many pressing issues facing science education today. One of the most important issues relating to science education is the under-representation of African Americans and Hispanics in the science, technology, and engineering workforce. Foreshadowing such under-representation in the workforce are the disproportionately low rates of African American and Hispanic students attaining...

• The Diverse Experiences of Hispanic Students in the American Educational System

  1/1/05 - Crosnoe, Robert

  Hispanic students have long been considered at risk in the American educational system. A better understanding of the diverse experiences of Hispanics can help to counteract this risk—in what ways, and where, do they do well or poorly or some mixture of both? To further this understanding, this study applies developmental and demographic perspectives to a representative sample of Hispanic high school students. First, analyses of the sample identified four student profiles based on various...

• The effects of Black and Hispanic 12th graders living in intact families and being religious on their academic achievement

  1/1/03 - Jeynes, William H.

  Using the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) data set from the 1988 to 1992 period, this study assessed the effects of the combination of living in an intact family and student religious commitment on the academic achievement of Black and Hispanic l2th graders. The results indicate that Black and Hispanic children who lived in an intact family and showed a high level of religiosity scored as well as White students on most measures of academic achievement, even when controlling for...

• The Role of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion in Explaining the Mathematics Achievement Gap Between Hispanic and White Students

  1/1/06 - Stevens, Tara, Olivárez, Arturo, Jr., Hamman, Doug

  The authors investigated the relationships between cognitive, motivational, and emotional variables across Hispanic and White students to predict mathematics performance. A theoretically based structural model fit a total sample of 666 4th- to 10th-grade students well, supporting that self-efficacy, sources of self-efficacy, and emotional feedback were all stronger predictors of mathematics performance than general mental ability. Tests of the structural model across ethnicity suggested a...

• The role of migration, family characteristics and English-language ability in Latino academic achievement

  1/1/04 - Johnson-Webb, Karen D.

  Latinos comprise the largest minority group in the U.S. and 63 percent are foreign-born. An educational gap exists between Latinos in the U.S. and other groups in the U.S. Lower educational attainment has ramifications for labor market and other socioeconomic outcomes. Factors involving family context have best explained the educational gap, along with English proficiency and migration history. This study, using the Census long-form data, explores the role of socio-economic background...

• The roles of parenting styles and social capital in the school performance of immigrant Asian and Hispanic adolescents

  1/1/05 - Pong, Suet-ling, Hao, Lingxin, Gardner, Erica

  Objective: This study investigates the role of parenting styles and social capital (parental involvement, intergenerational closure, expectation, and trust) in accounting for school performance among ethnic groups and across immigrant generations. Methods: Using data from the Adolescent Health Survey, we estimate fixed-effects models to analyze students' grade-point averages. We compare three generations of Asian students and three generations of Hispanic students to the third-generation...

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  The school readiness and academic achievement in reading and mathematics of young Hispanic children in the United States

  1/14/09 - The National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics,

  Throughout this policy brief, Hispanic readiness and achievement patterns in reading and mathematics are compared to the patterns for non-Hispanic Whites who are third generation Americans. This is because Whites still constitute a majority of U.S. students; and, most Whites are third generation Americans. However, in Appendix 1, some reading readiness and achievement data are presented for Asian Americans and African Americans, owing to the growing racial/ethnic diversity of the United States.

• "They might need a little extra hand, you know": Latino students in at-risk programs

  1/1/08 - Fairbrother, Anne

  This is a qualitative study in a school district in a large city in the Southwest in response to the research question, "What are staff and student expectations for, and assessment of, three 'at-risk' programs in this large school district?" Four thematic findings from observations and interviews in four classes in two high school alternative programs and one alternative high school over one semester are reported, concerning (a) commitment to the programs, (b) labeling of students, (c...