Discusses the role of student clubs for enhancing students' career aspirations. Particular focus is on Ninas Con Destinos (Girls with a Future), a club for Hispanic girls. (Author/VWL)

An after-school program for Hispanic American parents and their elementary students teaches them publishing together and helps parents acquire computer skills. The project evolved into a community-based learning community involving families, educators, and community members. Describes the computer learning and publishing activities, summarizes…

This study, with white, African American, and Hispanic American kindergartners (n=105) found significant differences between groups on mean speaking fundamental frequency and speaking range. Hispanic children showed increased mean speaking fundamental frequencies in comparison to African American children and reduced speaking ranges compared to…

Examines the effect of family indicators, including marriage, on migration from, and return to, Puerto Rico in the 1980s using data from surveys of 3,175 and 2,032 women. Single women apparently use migration to gain independence, but married women often follow men in the migration stream. (SLD)

Explores the concept of the five-step "resilience cycle" in the lives of two of five Dominican American students attending New York University. All five students were high achieving but with a low socioeconomic background. Considers the role of adaptive, complementary, and situational protective factors in producing academic resilience…

Article describes two organizations, the Latin American Youth Center and the Asian Pacific Development Center, that have a number of programs that foster relationships among youth and families of various races and cultures. It presents ways in which they work towards helping families adjust to U.S. culture. (Author/JDM)

Students of color are more likely to be suspended and/or drop out. Tackling racial inequity requires a strong, knowledgeable, and determined administrator to gather relevant information, ask tough questions, observe behaviors, state intentions, monitor expectations for minority kids, build relationships, establish zero-tolerance policies, and…

Goldstein questions the way Awad El Karim M. Ibrahim portrayed her research on the language and identity of Hispanic English-as-a-Second-Language learners in his article, "Becoming Black: Rap and Hip-Hop, Race, Gender, and Identity and the Politics of ESL Learning." Ibrahim responds to these comments. (Author/VWL)

A Los Angeles-area survey of 290 Latino parents of elementary and middle school children enrolled in bilingual education classes found that most parents did not understand the different models of bilingual education but thought that use of two languages facilitated their children's development of English. Although supporting bilingual education,…

Describes Boston College's successful six-week summer program, "Options Through Education--Transitional Summer Program" (OTE) and its academic year follow-up program, which assists AHANA (African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American) students to successfully negotiate the university. Although the program's target students enter…

Using Massachusetts as a case study, calls into question some of the common sense approaches to education reform and discusses how political-economic ideologies embedded in high-stakes testing adversely affect Latinos and obfuscate the growing social inequalities in U.S. society. Argues that educational opportunity programs are the missing link…

This study analyzed choice of academic major for different racial groups. While Asian Americans chose different majors than non-Asians, differences in factors affecting choice of major occur between European Americans and African, Hispanic, and Native Americans. Academic preparation, private schools, and maternal influence are areas of disparate…

Explores the potential of hybridity for supporting critical pedagogies that seek to transform the knowledge, texts, and identities of the school curriculum. Draws on microanalyses of oral and written texts constructed by a Latina student perceived to be struggling academically. Shows the student interweaving home, school, and peer language…

Used the differential functioning of items and tests (DFIT) framework to examine the measurement equivalence of a Spanish translation of the Sixteen Personality Factor (16PF) Questionnaire using samples of 309 Anglo American college students and other adults, 280 English-speaking Hispanics, and 244 Spanish-speaking college students. Results show…

Examined the factors that contributed to the attainment of the Ph.D. degree by 15 Hispanic American and 5 African American women. Family background and grade performance emerged as crucial to academic achievement, and four categories of noncognitive variables, including understanding and dealing with racism and sexism, were associated with…