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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
Bradley, Dominique; Welch, Matthew; Garcia, Alicia – Learning Professional, 2023
Literacy is a fundamental skill for students in every academic subject area and, most importantly, for navigating the world outside of school. The Long Beach Network for School Improvement focuses on building educators' capacity to support student literacy skills in middle schools in Long Beach, California, with a particular focus on increasing…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Academic Achievement, Literacy Education, Networks
Rebecca Klein-Collins; Christina Sedney; Patrick Lane – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The CAEL (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) announce the inaugural winners of the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Equity Awards, recognizing strategies that have been proven to put CPL in reach of key adult learner populations and/or increase their CPL credit-earning.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Adult Learning, Experiential Learning, Alaska Natives
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
Collier, Daniel A.; McMullen, Isabel – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
This exploratory, descriptive study examined trends associated with Kalamazoo Promise (KPromise) student stop out, reenrollment, and persistence to a credential upon reenrollment. For the 2006-2017 cohorts, 78% were retained from first to second year. Inferential models suggested that first-year stop out was mainly correlated to students' high…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Stopouts, Reentry Students, Academic Persistence
Schapiro, Naomi A.; Green, Emily K.; Kaller, Shelly; Brindis, Claire D.; Rodriguez, Atziri; Alkebulan-Abakah, Mizan; Chen, Jyu-Lin – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
This mixed-methods community-based participatory pilot study examined the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of group obesity management visits offered through school-based health centers. The study was implemented through an academic-community partnership in three school health centers serving primarily Latinx and African American youth.…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Obesity, School Health Services, Hispanic American Students
Marttinen, Risto; Fredrick, Ray N., III. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2017
After-school physical activity programs are great opportunities to increase daily physical activity for adolescent youth in urban environments who often do not get the recommended amounts of physical activity needed for health benefits. Black and Hispanic youth in urban environments are particularly under-resourced in not just facilities but…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Health Education
Sánchez, Bernadette; Pinkston, Kevin D.; Cooper, Adina C.; Luna, Carlos; Wyatt, Shelby T. – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the processes involved in developing close peer mentoring relationships among African American and Latino male adolescents in a school-based, group peer mentoring program. Qualitative one-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with six school staff members, who administer the program, and 26 program…
Descriptors: Males, Mentors, Qualitative Research, African American Students
Graham, Georgia – Houston Independent School District, 2021
Since 2007, nineteen Houston Independent School District (HISD) campuses have partnered with Literacy Now to offer the Reading Intervention program. The Reading Intervention program provides individualized, small group reading tutorials for at-risk students in kindergarten to second grade to create proficient readers by the end of third grade.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Akunvabey, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Sound Business Inc. (SBI) has worked to improve college access for Black and Latino students at A. Philip Randolph (APR) High School in New York City for over twenty-five years. This Case Study provides an in-depth look at the relationship between an in-house non-profit organization and an NYC public high school. How does this non-traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
"It's Both What You Say and How You Say It": Transgressive Language Practices via Spoken Word Poetry
Desai, Shiv R. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
Marginalized youth of color manifest their imaginative and innovative utilization of language in a variety of ways. One area that has been understudied is how transgressive language practices allow youth to subvert and resist oppression. While these language practices are viewed as vulgar and inappropriate for school, for disenfranchised youth…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Poetry, Disadvantaged Youth, Creativity
Estrada, Mica; Hernandez, Paul R.; Schultz, P. Wesley – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree earners. Viewed from a perspective of social influence, this pattern suggests that URMs do not integrate into the STEM academic community at the same rate as non-URM students.…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mentors, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation
Karczewski, Sabrina A.; Carter, Jocelyn S.; DeCator, Draycen D. – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: Rates of obesity have risen disproportionately for ethnic minority youth in the United States. School-based programs may be the most comprehensive and cost-effective way to implement primary prevention in children. In this study we evaluated the effect of a school-based obesity prevention on the outcome of body mass index percentile…
Descriptors: Incidence, Obesity, Low Income, Ethnicity
Sung, Kenzo K. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
Based on a qualitative study of an urban middle school, this article examines student perceptions of shifting tracking structures following the dismantling of a school's bilingual education program. The article demonstrates that students understood the school changes based on supposed language needs through an explicitly racialized lens, thereby…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Urban Schools, English Only Movement, Educational Change
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2019
This report includes findings regarding demographic characteristics and academic outcomes of DELTA students; highlights emerging topics from the student, teacher, and staff surveys; and provides recommendations for future program implementation.
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Student Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Credits
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