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Lenkeit, Jenny; Caro, Daniel H.; Strand, Steve – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
In England, students with immigrant background exhibit lower educational attainment than those without immigrant background. Family socioeconomic status (SES) helps explain differences in educational attainment, but a gap remains that differs in size for students with different immigrant backgrounds. While the explanatory repertoire for the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Longitudinal Studies
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Concha, Maritza; Sanchez, Mariana; de la Rosa, Mario; Villar, María Elena – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
This study uses social capital to assess the effects of social support on acculturation-related stress among recently immigrated Hispanics in South Florida before and after immigration. At baseline ("N" = 527), first 12 months in the United States, acculturative stress was negatively related to support from friends ("p" <…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Social Capital, Hispanic Americans, Acculturation