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Challenging Choices: Are Short-Term Noncredit Credentials a Strategy for Economic Mobility for Black Learners?
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Collins, Michael Lawrence; Hoffman, Nancy – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Black learners and workers face particular disadvantages in the labor market: casual and explicit racism, stereotypes about skills and professionalism, and limited access to the social networks and social capital required to connect to opportunity. Numerous research studies confirm that Black employees in the same fields and with the same degrees…
Descriptors: Program Length, Noncredit Courses, Credentials, Educational Mobility
Stratified Lives: Family, Illegality, and the Rise of a New Educational Elite
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Schmalzbauer, Leah; Andrés, Alelí – Harvard Educational Review, 2019
In this research article, Leah Schmalzbauer and Alelí Andrés examine the educational mobility of low-income US citizen and DACAmented youth who are members of mixed-status families. Drawing from thirty life history interviews with Latinx students attending a top-tier liberal arts college, and based on ethnographic case studies of eight of their…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, College Students
Grit and Agency: A Framework for Helping Students in Poverty to Achieve Academic Greatness
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Kundu, Anindya – National Youth-At-Risk Journal, 2017
Recent research in psychology introduces "grit" as a characteristic observable in successful students (Duckworth, 2016). Popular applications of the grit framework can further the notion of "rugged individualism," placing the onus of achievement upon the individual. This perspective can lead failures to be considered the result…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Personal Autonomy, Poverty, Academic Achievement
The Usefulness of Pupil Transfer Data to Measure Intracity Migration
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Lowell, Ruth Fabricant – Growth and Change, 1975
Descriptors: Educational Mobility, Elementary Schools, Institutional Cooperation, Interdistrict Policies
The Effect of Athletic Participation on the Academic Aspirations and Achievement of African American Males in a New York City High School.
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Anderson, S. Kareem – Journal of Negro Education, 1990
Attempts to determine the following: (1) whether African American students participating in sports on the high school varsity level hold and/or are being hurt by unrealistic athletic aspirations; and (2) how levels of athletic and academic aspirations affect future goals of African American student athletes. Finds no clear evidence of detrimental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Athletes, Athletics
The Effect of Continuity of School Environment on Reading Achievement of Fifth Grade Pupils.
Abramson, Jacob – 1974
Learning to read is a complex process and necessitates continuity in the school environment -- the factor of primary concern in this study. Three objectives are noted: (1) to determine differences in reading achievement between fifth grade pupils who have been in the same school since the third grade (non-mobile), and those fifth grade pupils who…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Mobility, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
The Effect of the Intermediate School Program on the Reading Achievement of Sixth Grade Pupils.
Abramson, Jacob – 1975
A previous study that demonstrates that fifth grade non-mobile pupils have higher reading achievement and read at or above grade norm level than comparable fifth grade mobile pupils (regardless of their ethnicity and socioeconomic status) forms the basis for this report. Here, the focus is to follow-up the non-mobile and mobile groups of the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Mobility, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students