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Direct linkSan Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
This essay provides an overview of the huelga schools established in Houston, Texas, in 1970. For 2 years, from 1970 to 1972, the Mexican American community opposed the Houston Independent School District's plan to integrate the schools by pairing so-called White Mexican Americans with African American students. While they protested this decision,…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Action, Resistance (Psychology), Mexican American Education
Download full textGoodman, Mary Ellen; And Others – Rice University Studies, 1971
An ethnographic study of Mexican Americans living in Houston is presented in this monograph. The Mexican American population is studied in regard to such factors as population distribution, culture, socioeconomic background, education, employment, social activities, and environment. The barrio environment is discussed in terms of its setting,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Census Figures, Community Organizations, Community Surveys
San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – 2001
In the early 1970s, thousands of Mexican-origin students, parents, and community members participated in legal and political actions against the Houston public schools. Their actions were sparked by the school district's effort in 1970 to circumvent a desegregation court order by classifying Mexican American children as "white,"…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Organizations, Court Litigation, Educational History
Peer reviewedValenzuela, Angela – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2000
A 3-year case study of a Houston (Texas) high school demonstrates that high stakes testing is an alienating feature of schooling. The need to pass the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills to graduate discourages many Mexican American and immigrant Mexican students from completing high school or considering college. The English-only nature of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
Curiel, Herman; And Others – 1979
A Houston, Texas, elementary bilingual program did not produce consistently equal or superior cognitive outcomes but was effective in facilitating second language learning. In order to ascertain the effects of the program on participants' self esteem, English reading level, and grade point average (GPA), the elementary and seventh grade GPAs of an…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Curriculum
Peer reviewedCuriel, Herman; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1986
Compares 86 Mexican-American secondary school students in Houston, Texas, who had and 90 students who had not received bilingual instruction in elementary grades. Finds small difference in grade point average (GPA) and absenteeism and fewer dropouts/retentions among bilingual program participants. Finds more years of bilingual instruction…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis
