BE020770: Caring, Community, and Personalization: Strategies to Combat the Hispanic Dropout Problem.
| Acquisition Number: | BE020770 |
| Title: | Caring, Community, and Personalization: Strategies to Combat the Hispanic Dropout Problem. |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Author: | Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh |
| Institution/Corporate Author: | Hispanic Dropout Project, Washington, DC. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Type: | 070; 141 |
| Notes: | 8 p. |
| Online: | http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/files/rcd/BE020770/Advances_in_Hispanic_Educat__.pdf |
| Descriptors: | Hispanic Americans Junior High School Students Junior High Schools Dropouts Dropout Prevention Cultural Background Cultural Awareness Educational Policy Parent School Relationship School Community Relationship Cultural Context Academic Achievement Educational Environment |
| Identifiers: | Educational Research |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the context in which Hispanic students drop out of school and what one middle school has done to battle these contextual factors. A web of interlocking factors synergize to make dropping out of school much more likely for Hispanic students, including racial and ethnic identity, gender, socioeconomic status, academic performance, self-concept, family organization, and language fluency. School factors such as sorting and classifying students into curricula with little relation to their everyday life and culture and environmental factors are considered. The model school's success is described in engaging students, working with Hispanic students and their families in a culturally respectful way, bonding students to the academic experience, setting goals with school staff, engaging the community and parents, and changing policy. The successful experiences of the school's principal, assistant principal and a counselor are examined to provide strategies, ideas and recommendations for policy and practice. (jpb) |
| Scope Notes: | Educational Research |