Latino High School Graduation : : Defying the Odds / / Toni Falbo, Harriett D. Romo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Romo, Harriett D.,; Falbo, Toni,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bonjean, Charles M.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Hogg Foundation Monograph Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

While high school drop-out rates have steadily declined among white and African American students over the last twenty years, a constant 35 percent of Latino students continue to quit school before graduation. In this pioneering work, Harriett Romo and Toni Falbo reveal how a group of at-risk Latino students defied the odds and earned a high school diploma. Romo and Falbo tracked the progress of 100 students in Austin, Texas, from 1989 to 1993. Drawing on interviews with the students and their parents, school records, and fieldwork in the schools and communities, the authors identify both the obstacles that caused many students to drop out and the successful strategies that other students and their parents pursued to ensure high school graduation. The authors conclude with seven far-reaching recommendations for changes in the public schools. Sure to provoke debate among all school constituencies, this book will be required reading for school administrators, teachers, parents, legislators, and community leaders.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE The Goals and Methods of This Book -- TWO The Tracking of Hispanic Students "You're not college material." -- THREE Caught in the Web of School Policies "Why me?" -- FOUR Gang Involvement and Educational Attainment "My own gang." -- FIVE Teen Motherhood "I wanted him." -- SIX Immigrant and Second-Generation Students "Well, she's Mexican. She's going to drop out." -- SEVEN Going for the GED "I didn't want to be 20 when I graduated." -- EIGHT Bureaucratic Glitches " I guess no one wants me." -- NINE Cultural Boundaries, Family Resources, and Parental Actions "Don H be like me—stay in school." -- TEN What Schools Must D o to Improve Graduation Rates "What would I change? Everything." -- APPENDIX 1 Parent Questionnaire -- APPENDIX 2 Student Questionnaire -- APPENDIX 3 Ethnographic Interview # I-Parent -- APPENDIX 4 Ethnographic Interview # I -Student -- APPENDIX 5 Ethnographic Interview #2—Parent -- APPENDIX 6 Ethnographic Interview #2—Student -- APPENDIX 7 Telephone Interview- Parent -- APPENDIX 8 Telephone Interview Student -- NOTES -- INDEX