The Crisis
Education & Being Latino
Beating the Odds
Costs & Effectiveness of Interventions
Rescuing Dreams!
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The most under-educated “majority minority” group in the USA: ➢ This population has increased from 5% to 20% (2005) ➢ 2025 predictions are this population will be one in four in schools
What are Latinos? (disclaimer, “Latinos” is a “diverse” label!)
100
Students are more likely to have behavior and school attendance problems, as well as be held back in school when this happens.
What is change residences or switch schools frequently?
100
"Researchers have found this item to be related to teacher perceptions and better predictors of academic performance than some other measure of ability"
What are student self-perceptions?
100
These scores can be used to predict which 3rd grade students will go to college and which will not, with little error
What are reading scores?
100
"This Act was stalled in congress for several years to address the problem of providing access to financial aid for undocumented students who have been in the country for several years, graduated from a U.S. high school and qualified for college admission."
What is the "Dream Act"?
200
This effect is seen by the observation that for some Latino groups, children of immigrants initially improve academically but then show little improvement after either the second or third generation
What is the “ceiling effect”?
200
This theory states that availability of places such as parks, libraries, and child care centers close to the family’s home is related to a child’s development.
What is “Neighborhood Resource Theory”?
200
In Mexico, compulsory education only extends to 'secundaria' or roughly the equivalent of this education level.
What is Middle School?
200
These factors, which are uncontrollable to the child, have powerful effects on children’s aspirations and preparation for schooling.
What are, any two of the following: economic situation of parents, parents schooling history, the neighborhoods in which children are born and raised ?
200
For students with disadvantages who also have fewer high school achievements, this type of activity has been found to link to a measurable and meaningful gain on SAT scores (for both Verbal and Math scores).
What are extracurricular activities?
300
African American, Native American and Latino Kindergarten children are likely to be in the lowest quartile for these skills .
What are Reading and Math skills ?
300
This traditional parenting style among Latino families may be used by parents to prevent their children from exploring an unsafe neighborhood, but some students attribute these limitations to their success.
What is authoritarian?
300
This is a well-known characteristic of newcomers to the United States and tends to reinforce an emphasis on schooling for newcomer children. This is also known as the strong belief that with enough hard work anyone can attain the American Dream.
What is hopefulness?
300
These programs are designed to support the healthy, early development of low-income children and prepare them for a successful transition to school by focusing on health education services, pre-academic skills, and parent/community involvement.
What are Head Start Preschool Programs?
300
Throwing this at educational problems has not guaranteed improvement in performance/achievement gaps, but instead, putting resources to help the partnership between home and school does contribute better.
What is money?
400
As per the US department of Education, Children’s academic performance is a function of this, which is a serious issue for Latino children and effects both early school education and may be a source of issues throughout their education .
What is a mother’s education level ? (P.S. 40% of Latino parents have no High School education versus 4% of White parents)
400
This is one reason why Latino families often do not receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps, and Medicaid.
What is undocumented children? What is undocumented parents who are unaware of resources and fear deportation? What is residency in a state where no immigrants can get TANF and Medicaid? (any one of the above questions)
400
Virtually all Latino students whom the authors have known to “beat the odds” have had what common denominator?
What is an adult that steps forward in their lives? (to encourage them--telling them they are smart and “can do it” and to provide guidance)
400
Although there are a number of dropout prevention programs and college-access programs in high schools around the U.S., only this percent of Latino students actually come into contact with dropout prevention programs.
What is approximately 5%?
400
These social contexts underlie and undermine a Latino child's development.
What are developmental needs, family conditions, and neighborhood conditions?
500
Multiple challenges/hurdles that Latino students face in US Educational system (includes lack of community resources such as parks and libraries, and state propositions that limit opportunities)
What are poor and risky neighborhoods, lack of social capital, language issues, and politics of ethnicity?
500
Latino Americans are often “tracked” into lower performing reading groups early in their education careers (because of language difficulties). This leads to the students having less access to these educational opportunities in later years.
What are Gifted and Talented Education (GATE), Honors Classes, and Advanced Placement (AP) courses, or college preparatory courses in general?
500
Richard Duran attributes the lower SAT scores among Latinos to this list of four factors that may influence the SAT test performance of Spanish speakers.
What is “guessing”, “test anxiety”, “test duration”, and a “lack of familiarity with the vocabulary” contained in the exams?
500
This program is one of the few that focuses on the earlier grades and targets individual achievement as well as whole-school reform. In addition, it has been evaluated for its effectiveness on Spanish-speaking students.
What is "Success for All"
500
This is the single most important piece for helping underrepresented students navigate successfully through high school and into college.
What is forming a strong relationship with a caring adult who truly knows the student?
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