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Lac, Van T.; Diaz, Christina – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This study examines the experiences of three aspiring Latina school leaders in a principal preparation program with a social justice emphasis. Employing theoretical perspectives grounded in a community-based educational leadership framework and transformational resistance theory, this study documents how coursework informed the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Disadvantaged
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Witkowsky, Patty; Obregon, Victoria; Bruner, Brett; Alanis, Jennifer – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
Considering the collectivist culture and strong family connections in Latinx families, engaging parents and family members of new Latinx students in higher education is important to promote students' persistence and completion of their degrees. Parent and family member orientation (PFMO) programs offered in Spanish provide a bridge between…
Descriptors: Collectivism, Family Relationship, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Students
Rangel, David E.; Shoji, Megan N.; Gamoran, Adam – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Research suggests that school-based parent networks have significant benefits for children's education, yet scholars know very little about how such relationships form and develop over time. This study uses interview and survey data with elementary school parents in predominantly low-income Latinx communities to examine how parents meet one…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Parent Participation, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes
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Magaña, Sandy; Lopez, Kristina; Salkas, Kristen; Iland, Emily; Morales, Miguel Angel; Garcia Torres, Mariana; Zeng, Weiwen; Machalicek, Wendy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This two-site randomized waitlist-control study (n = 96 mother-child dyads) examined the efficacy of a psychoeducation program as compared to usual care to empower Latina mothers and improve their confidence in and use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for their children with ASD. A secondary aim was to improve child outcomes. Compared to control…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Psychoeducational Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Austin R. Waters; Perla L. Vaca Lopez; Luis Rios; Amy Chevrier; Maria Guadarrama; Julie Contreras; Judy Y. Ou; Matt Slonaker; Anne C. Kirchhoff – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Background: Equitable access to health care services for Hispanic and Latine populations requires that systems go beyond working to increase enrollment in health insurance but also addressing health insurance literacy--the knowledge, ability, and confidence to find and use health insurance. Methods: In collaboration with a local health policy…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Health Promotion, Access to Health Care, Knowledge Level
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Cavendish, Wendy; Perez, Deborah; Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Lydia – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This qualitative study examined the perspectives of Black and Latino high school and undergraduate students involved in an aspirational peer mentoring program for college access. Our findings identified five central themes that contributed to the development of social capital for participants: program expectations and experiences, sustaining…
Descriptors: Social Capital, High School Students, Undergraduate Students, African American Students
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Behnke, Andrew O.; Bodenhamer, Aysha; McDonald, Taylor; Robledo, Mayra – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2019
The Juntos Program empowers Latina/o students and their families to gain the knowledge and resources necessary for academic success in high school and college. This is made possible via four interlinking components: Family Engagement; 4-H Clubs; Success Coaching and Mentoring; and a Juntos Summer Academy. Nineteen focus groups with participants in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Hispanic American Students, Student Empowerment, Academic Achievement
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Zuckerman, Katharine E.; Chavez, Alison E.; Wilson, Laura; Unger, Katie; Reuland, Colleen; Ramsey, Katrina; King, Margaret; Scholz, Julie; Fombonne, Eric – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Improving autism spectrum disorder screening and referral in primary care may reduce autism spectrum disorder disparities for Latino children. The REAL-START intervention aimed to increase primary care provider adherence to autism spectrum disorder and developmental screening guidelines, and to increase Early Intervention referral for children at…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Screening Tests, Comparative Analysis
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Senreich, Evan; Saint-Louis, Nicole M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
There are a small number of MSW and BSW programs in the U.S. that have specialized tracks to train social workers to work with Spanish-speaking clients. This qualitative focus group study reports on the experiences of 25 students who participated in a new English-Spanish dual-language component in the final year of an MSW program in a Northeastern…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Odle, Taylor K.; Lee, Jason C.; Gentile, Steven P. – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
As college promise programs proliferate across the United States with noted intentions to promote access through increased affordability, it is necessary to understand the relationship between these programs and other forms of financial aid, including loans. Using federal, state, and program-level data, we leverage a natural experiment to estimate…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Program Descriptions, Paying for College, Attribution Theory
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Hollingsworth, Heidi L.; Knight-McKenna, Mary; Esposito, Judy; Redd, Caroline – Infants and Young Children, 2021
This study investigated family and coach responses to a two-year community-based research program, Strong Beginnings for Babies (SBB), designed to support families in fostering infant language development. The study focused on families of infants from low-income backgrounds, as these children may be at risk for delayed language development. The…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Hispanic Americans
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Colomer, Soria E.; Chang-Bacon, Chris K. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Research has suggested that U.S. K-12 dual-language and Seal of Biliteracy programs do not benefit all students equally in their recognition of students' multilingual competencies. The authors explored the perspectives of high school Seal of Biliteracy graduates: how they conceptualized the seal and the benefits that they had or had not derived…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingual Education Programs, Multilingualism, Bilingualism
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Stacy, Jen – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Family literacy programmes operate on the periphery of American education and often employ a deficit orientation toward minoritized families; still, parents view these programmes as language-learning resources. This ethnographic study explores the experiences of Latina mothers enrolled in a school-based family literacy programme in Nebraska to…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Minority Groups, Ethnography
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Shea, Molly V.; Sandoval, Jose – Science Education, 2020
In this article we studied how community educators' designed for equity in an after school science program. Building from discussions of equity in out-of-school-time (OST) science, this case study offers insight into the role of pedagogy in organizing for dignity and belonging in an after school program. This case study focused on the practices of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Equal Education, Instructional Design, Case Studies
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Colegrove, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki; Krause, Gladys – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the mathematical understanding of Latino immigrant parents in curricular and pedagogical practices in elementary school. The paper seeks to counter widely spread deficit discourses about the parental involvement of Latinos in education. Using data from the Agency and Young Children project, a video-cued…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students, Teaching Methods
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