Structuring Failure and Success: Understanding the Variability in Latino School Engagement.

Conchas, Gilberto Q.

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ERIC Number: EJ634198

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Publication Date: 2001

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Structuring Failure and Success: Understanding the Variability in Latino School Engagement.

Conchas, Gilberto Q.

Harvard Educational Review, v71 n3 p475-504 Fall 2001

Interviews with 26 Latino high school students in California indicated that distinct school cultures (career academy, advanced placement, general education) were experienced in different ways by U.S.-born and immigrant Latinos. These experiences influenced their school engagement and academic success. (Contains 48 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Career Academies, Failure, General Education, Immigrants, Learning Motivation, Low Income Groups, School Culture, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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