At the southernmost tip of Texas, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) opened its doors on August 31, 2015 as a 'bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate' campus--the only one of its kind and at a scale never before attempted in the United States. This is a categorical achievement in the near 200 year-long quest for the educational…

Access to higher education has increased within the last decades, particularly within historically underserved communities, but the challenges of navigating college for first-generation Latino/a/x students still show up in the disproportionate rates of retention, persistence, and graduation for this group (National Center for Education Statistics,…

Shifts in demographic and cultural change in American society, particularly the growth of the Hispanic and Latino/a population, have shed light on inequalities in education and revealed institutional barriers to Hispanic learning in doctoral education programs. This best practice paper contextualizes Hispanic and Latino/a Learners (HLL) within…

This study explored racial differences in internalizing and externalizing problems among minority adolescents in impoverished urban communities. The study centered on a sample of 211 participants who were engaged in the 2018 Building Resilience Against Violence Engagement (BRAVE) programs. Their internalizing and externalizing problems were…

Research related to the engagement of parents in education continues to perpetuate critical misconceptions in the education of English Learners (ELs), as ideological mind-sets and mislabeling of Latinx families intentionally diminish their roles, importance, participation, and histories. The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on mitigating online…

Effective mathematics education for Latinx students with learning disabilities (LD) necessitates teachers who uphold high academic expectations, facilitate access to rigorous math curricula, and champion inclusive and meaningful student participation. This study delves into teachers' perspectives on instructing Latinx students with LD, including…

Residential segregation accounts for most school segregation. School choice policies have the potential to decrease school segregation by allowing students to attend schools outside their neighborhoods. However, some research indicates that these policies can also contribute to increased segregation, likely due to differences in access to choice…

The research centers on the practices that exemplary community colleges, universities, and transfer partnerships used to achieve relatively strong transfer and bachelor's attainment outcomes overall and specifically for low-income, Black, and Hispanic students. Based on their findings, the authors present a practical framework for achieving better…

Bicultural competence, the ability to navigate and alternate between two cultures, is an important developmental competency for Latinx youth. Empirical research has suggested that bicultural competence is associated with positive academic and psychosocial functioning, including higher academic achievement and fewer internalizing and externalizing…

Urban minoritized students often face a multitude of systemic challenges that play out in their statistical outcomes. Still, they are also surrounded by cultural, family, and community resources, supports, and funds of knowledge. In this manuscript, we present a methodology for a community-engaged process to urban educational ecosystems as a first…

Objective: To examine family planning and fertility experiences and views, as well as desired parenthood timing and career plans, of diverse undergraduate pre-health students. Participants: 266 pre-health undergraduate students attending a Hispanic-Serving Institution in South Texas. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, online survey with a…

There is a strong relationship between student attendance and success in school. As a 2007 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) explained, attendance data have great predictive value: students with regular attendance have better academic achievement and are less likely to drop out of school. Those who are chronically…

This scholarly inquiry examines three affirmative action challenges encountered by school leaders and teachers as they endeavor to provide a meaningful education to Emergent Bilingual (EB) students as mandated by the landmark Supreme Court decision in "Lau v. Nichols." Each affirmative action challenge is written within an EB student's…

A college education can be a critical step toward achieving economic mobility, but there are differences in the benefits that accrue to Black, Hispanic, and White college graduates. At every level of educational attainment, including bachelor's degrees, White workers are more likely than Black or Hispanic workers with the same qualifications to…

California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) launched the five-year "Puedes! Caminos, Cariño, y Carreras in a Post-Pandemic Era" grant in Fall 2022 to enhance educational opportunity and attainment for Hispanic students in California's southern Central Valley. Building on the successes of Year 1, the project achieved notable…