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...

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