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Finishing What My Parents Started: College Aspirations among EMERGE Students. Research Brief for the Houston Independent School District. Volume 8, Issue 3

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Chukhray, Irina; Holzman, Brian; Ankoor, Nehemiah; Li, DongMei – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2019

EMERGE is a college access program for talented but underserved high school students. EMERGE aims to encourage students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds (economically disadvantaged, first-generation college-going, or both) to attend selective colleges and universities since disadvantaged students are prone to academic undermatch--enrolling in a…

Descriptors: College Programs, College Applicants, Access to Education, High School Students

Information, Mass Media Use, and the Working Poor.

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Chatman, Elfreda A. – Library and Information Science Research, 1985

Fifty women enrolled in an urban Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program were interviewed about their use of the mass media and the public library for useful information, preferences in the use of mass media, and their attitudes about source credibility. A 23-item interview guide is appended. (25 references) (EJS)

Descriptors: Credibility, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Information Needs