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Educational Involvement among Immigrant and U.S.-Born Families: Antecedents, Trajectories, and Child Outcomes during Elementary School
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Sibley, Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Family educational involvement is consistently and positively associated with child achievement, but little work has closely examined the involvement practices of families of color, particularly immigrant families. Utilizing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort 1998-99 (ECLS-K), this study used Hierarchical Linear…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Immigrants, Minority Groups, Longitudinal Studies
Towards the Education Nation: Revisiting the Impact of Financial Aid, College Experience, and Institutional Context on Baccalaureate Degree Attainment Using a Propensity Score Matching, Multilevel Modeling Approach
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Franke, Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2012
To compete in the global marketplace, the U.S. economy heavily relies on higher education institutions to educate the college graduates and knowledge workers needed to create the innovative products and services of tomorrow. And yet, where once America led the world in educational attainment, recent data from the Organization for Economic…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Educational Attainment, Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Merit Scholarships
Factors Related to Early Termination from Work for Youth with Disabilities
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Pebdani, Roxanna Nasseri – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Youth with disabilities face significant barriers in achieving positive post-high school outcomes, particularly when transitioning out of high school and entering the workforce, a problem that has been documented and studied by many researchers. The impact of previous work experience has long been viewed as related to positive outcomes when youth…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Job Layoff, Barriers, Transitional Programs