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Structuring failure and success
Why do some low-income immigrant and native-born Latino students do well in school while others do not? Why are low-income Latino students less successful in school than their White peers? What are the effects of institutional mechanisms on low-income Latino school engagement? For the past two decades, the most persuasive answers to these questions have been advanced by the cultural-ecologists, who suggest that differences in academic achievement by race result from minority groups' perceptions of the limited opportunity structure. However, variations within the Latino student population remain - some Latino students succeed and some fail. This article ... describes the results of a study that examined how school programs construct school failure and success among low-income immigrants and U. S.- born Latino students. The results ... show that, from students' perspectives, institutional mechanisms have an impact on Latino school engagement, and [the author] links cultural-ecological explanations and institutional explanations. (DIPF/orig.)
Journal Article
The complex web of inequality in North American schools : investigating educational policies for social justice
\"The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American school system. Showing how historical biases have been inherited in current polices relating to non-dominant youth, the text calls for educational reforms that perform in the name of social justice. This edited collection carefully interrogates how technocratic educational policies and reforms are often unequipped to address the interplay of political, social, economic, ideological factors that are at the roots of educational injustice. Considering the most vulnerable student populations, original case studies explore how inadequate structures, practices, and beliefs have increased marginalization, and highlight those instances in which policy has proved effective in reducing opportunity gaps between economically rich and poor students; between white, Asian, Black and Latino youth; between native English speakers and second language learners; highlighting racial integration and unequal American Indian education; and for students with special educational needs. The insights into such policies shed light on the complex web of historically embedded inequities that continue to shape the construction, roll-out, and consequences of education policy for the most marginalized youth populations today. This volume will be of interest to graduate, and postgraduate students, researchers and academics in the fields of education policy, sociology of education, economics of education, and history of education, and well as policy evaluation\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Acculturation and School Success: Understanding the Variability of Mexican American Youth Adaptation Across Urban and Suburban Contexts
This article concentrates on the educational experiences of urban and suburban Mexican American youth, from recent immigrants to those that have been in the United States for generations. The article seeks to unravel the relationship between acculturation and school success by offering a holistic and longitudinal approach of three time periods: 1974, 1988, and 2004. The dynamics of Mexican American acculturation and adaptation differ across populations (People), environmental settings (Place), and across the three time periods studied (Time). The diversity of physical space, social locations, and ethnic identities within the Mexican American population needs to be recognized within such an analysis. This article highlights policy and practice designed to impact the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, a population constantly facing changes.
Journal Article
Small schools and urban youth
This sociological study examines small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities and highlights the relationship between school culture, personalization, and student engagement.
eBook
Reflecting on the institutional processes for college success: The experiences of four Chicanos in the context of inequality
The education crisis facing the Latino community in the United States has received considerable attention. Recognizing the demographic growth, low-educational attainment levels, high dropout rates and low college attendance rates among Latinos, research suggests that Latino males specifically are struggling. In recognition of the various factors that shape the disparity in Latino male outcomes, this article aims to focus on the experiences of four low-income Chicanos within the US context. Our counter-narratives demonstrate that beyond “ganas,” key institutional processes, practices and policies shaped our experiences, providing a complex analysis of Latino student mobility from kindergarten to college and career.
Journal Article
Structuring educational opportunity: Variations in urban school success among racial minority youth
This comparative case study draws upon data collected in interviews, focus groups and observations with eighty high school students: 26 Latinos, 27 African Americans, and 27 Asian American students. All of these students attended the same California high school located in an urban area. Many of these students were enrolled in school-within-a-school academic programs; however, some were not. This exploratory case study suggests the importance of unraveling the intricate processes in the school that structure social and academic success instead of marginalization and disengagement among minority youth. It begins to explain why and how successful minority students manage to escape the unequal structures of urban schooling. This dissertation reveals that while schools replicate existing social and economic inequality present in larger society and culture, many racial minority youth reject the outcome of academic failure. It offers stark insight into how a supportive academic institution within a school structures opportunities for racial minority youth while understanding the need to establish safe learning environments where these students acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success. The participating racial minority student populations did not represent static and monolithic entities; rather, many variations existed between racial and ethnic students groups as well as within them. This dissertation emphasizes these differences and assesses how the school context serves to reflect, produce, and mediate engagement, ethnic identity, school ideology and race relations among minority students. Although the school context becomes key in understanding minority school success, student adaptation and academic engagement remain uneven among racial groups. The majority of students greatly benefit from key institutional factors within the school and their reactions and interpretations of college and career goals differ. Socioeconomic status and gender play pivotal roles in the daily lives of students. Hence, we must remain critical of larger historical and structural forces that impact youths' schooling experiences and subsequent perceptions of the opportunity structure. This comparative case study calls for an in-depth elaboration of the theoretical link between cultural-ecological explanations and institutional explanations.
Dissertation
Facing the Facts: Why School Policies BACKFIRE
[...]rather than increasing access for the most disadvantaged students to higher-performing high schools and integrating schools across the city, the program ended up reproducing ongoing patterns and exacerbating school segregation. [...]students who left the persistently failing school for new settings actually did worse than had they stayed given the lack of supports and resources they were provided at the 23 schools where they enrolled, according to researchers Matthew Gaertner, Ben Kirshner and Kristen Pozzoboni. [...]when developing analytic models to address the success of new policies, educators ought to consider theory, practice and context to ensure they are arriving at the correct analytic conclusions.
Trade Publication Article