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Esquinca, Alberto; de la Piedra, María Teresa; Herrera-Rocha, Lidia – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2018
With the goal of achieving bilingualism and biculturalism, dual language education (DL) has a social justice orientation. As the program option with the best track record of closing the achievement gap between Latinx and White students, DL programs can potentially create environments in which learners can develop knowledge of science, technology,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Biculturalism, Social Justice, Achievement Gap
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Svanstrom, Magdalena; Palme, Ulrika; Wedel, Maria Knutson; Carlson, Ola; Nystrom, Thomas; Eden, Michael – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on methods developed, within a three-year Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) project at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, to achieve a higher degree of embedding of ESD in engineering programmes. The major emphasis is on methods used, results achieved and lessons…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Learning Processes, Engineering
Santiago, Deborah; Brown, Sarita E. – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2004
By the year 2025, 25 percent of school-age children in the United States and 22 percent of the college-age population will be Hispanic. Yet even with the growth of the population there remain significant achievement gaps between Hispanic students and other racial and ethnic groups, leading to fewer Latino high school and college graduates.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Profiles, Program Descriptions