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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792902803321

Autore

Romo Harriett

Titolo

Latino high school graduation : defying the odds / / Harriett D. Romo and Toni Falbo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-292-79259-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages)

Collana

The Hogg Foundation monograph series

Altri autori (Persone)

FalboToni

Disciplina

371.97/6872073

Soggetti

Mexican American students - Social conditions

High school dropouts - United States

High school graduates - United States

Youth with social disabilities - Education (Secondary) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-320) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Troubled by both the magnitude and the constancy of the Latino drop-out rate, Harriett Romo and Toni Falbo conducted a four-year study of at-risk Latino students to determine how some defy the odds and stay in school to earn high school diplomas. This book reveals in full detail what they found.