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Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Cady, Clare – Online Submission, 2018
This report is an in-depth case study of the No Excuses Poverty Initiative at Amarillo College (AC), a midsize community college in the Texas Panhandle. Nearly a decade ago, AC's leadership initiated a reflective and intentional series of steps to help alleviate the conditions of poverty affecting their students and promote the chances those…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students
Estes, L. Karen; Owens, Carolyn; Zipperlen, Marlene – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine if a correlation exists between politically-oriented experiences and teacher candidates' sense of efficacy for political advocacy. Pre-service teacher candidates in a Texas university completed the Political Advocacy Scale of Efficacy for Teachers (PASET), a survey instrument designed to measure one's…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Advocacy, Correlation, Political Attitudes