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Looking below the Surface to Close Achievement Gaps and Improve Career Readiness Skills
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Bresciani Ludvik, Marilee – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
Achievement gaps still remain even though many institutions have invested in efforts to close them. Some institutions have benefited from the use of data analytics, yet may be unaware of whether they are reinforcing institutional and social behavior that may be increasing or maintaining achievement gaps. Focusing efforts on cultivating learning…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Career Readiness, Job Skills, Student Characteristics
Habla Con Ellos--Talk to Them: Latinas/os, Achievement, and the Middle Grades
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Salas, Spencer; Jones, Jeanneine P.; Perez, Theresa; Fitchett, Paul G.; Kissau, Scott – Middle School Journal (J3), 2013
Culture plays a critical role in the most effective middle schools (NMSA, 2010), and the Education Department at University of North Carolina at Charlotte considers transnational children of immigration to be a great wealth, a rich blessing. This Department works tirelessly to equip today's middle grades teachers to serve this group of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bilingual Students, Middle School Teachers, Student Diversity
Critical Issues in Learning Disabilities. The Cross-Cultural Nature of Learning Disabilities: A Profile in Perseverance.
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Lerner, Janet; Chen, Andy – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This article offers a profile of Dr. Andy Chen, an individual from Taiwan with learning disabilities who became an assistant professor of accounting at Northeastern Illinois University. The interview follows his progress through school, college, military service, and postgraduate work and describes learning strategies he developed to deal with his…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Education of Hispanic Youth: A Cultural Lag.
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DeBlassie, Adele M.; DeBlassie, Richard R. – Adolescence, 1996
Surveys literature on adolescents with respect to the possible causes of the educational lag in Hispanic youth. Presents possible contributing factors to the education lag, including culture shock many young Hispanics experience upon entrance into school. Offers suggestions for strategies to improve attainment levels of Hispanic American Youth.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cultural Differences
Finding and Cultivating Minority Gifted/Talented Students.
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Bernal, Ernesto M. – 1994
This paper focuses on selection of students and curricular programming in gifted education. A current emphasis on selection rather than identification of able learners, including culturally diverse able learners, is noted, as are new understandings of the nature of giftedness, including: giftedness is more than high intelligence; giftedness is…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Educational Practices
The Student in Social Studies Education.
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Ochoa, Anna S. – Social Studies, 1990
Reviews the "Handbook of Research on Social Studies Teaching and Learning's" section on students. Examines currentness of research comprehensiveness, clarity, and evaluative analysis. Specifically analyzes chapters on student development, educationally disadvantaged, culturally diverse, and gifted students. Finds the section reveals the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences