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The Dropout Effects Of Career Pathways: Evidence From California, Sade Bonilla
The Dropout Effects Of Career Pathways: Evidence From California, Sade Bonilla
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Contemporary Career and Technical Education (CTE) models have shifted from isolated courses to sequences of study that integrate academics and skills in high-demand sectors. Providing career pathways to high school students may reduce asymmetries about the available careers and strategies for attaining them but they may also catalyze students’ intrinsic motivation by shifting their understanding of their social role and capacity for success. In this study, I estimate the effects of an ambitious $500 million effort to encourage the formation of career pathways in California. Funding supported the formation of tripartite partnerships between K-12 school districts, employers and community colleges …
Stem Degree Completion And First-Generation College Students. A Cumulative Disadvantage Approach To The Outcomes Gap, Genia Bettencourt, Catherine A. Manly, Ezekiel Kimball, Ryan Wells
Stem Degree Completion And First-Generation College Students. A Cumulative Disadvantage Approach To The Outcomes Gap, Genia Bettencourt, Catherine A. Manly, Ezekiel Kimball, Ryan Wells
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Is First-Gen An Identity? How First-Generation College Students Make Meaning Of Institutional And Familial Constructs Of Self, Genia Bettencourt, Koboul E. Mansour, Mujtaba Hedayet, Patricia Tita Feraud-King, Kat J. Stephens, Miguel M. Tejada, Ezekiel Kimball
Is First-Gen An Identity? How First-Generation College Students Make Meaning Of Institutional And Familial Constructs Of Self, Genia Bettencourt, Koboul E. Mansour, Mujtaba Hedayet, Patricia Tita Feraud-King, Kat J. Stephens, Miguel M. Tejada, Ezekiel Kimball
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Institutions increasingly use first-generation categorizations to provide support to students. In this study, we sought to understand how students make meaning of their first-generation status by conducting a series of focus groups with 54 participants. Our findings reveal that students saw first-generation status as an organizational and familial identity rather than a social identities. This status was connected to alterity and social distance that was most salient in comparison to continuing-generation peers. Our recommendations include re-examining the role of first- generation specific programming on campus, creating opportunities for meaning-making, supporting students within changing family dynamics, and exploring the interaction between …
High School–University Collaborations For Latinx Student Success: Navigating The Political Reality, Genia Bettencourt, Chrystal A. George Mwangi, Keisha Green, Daniel Morales Morales
High School–University Collaborations For Latinx Student Success: Navigating The Political Reality, Genia Bettencourt, Chrystal A. George Mwangi, Keisha Green, Daniel Morales Morales
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Latinx students are a growing population in postsecondary education but attain degrees at a pace behind their non-Latinx peers. This research examines a partnership between a research university (RU) and career and technical education (CTE) high school, Hillside Technical High School (HTHS). Through a 2-year ethnographic case study, we found that different logistics and cultural values were primary contributors to the bifurcated pathway between high school and college. These pathways were most successfully connected through strategies such as flexibility, personal relationships, and incorporation of community resources as well as viewing the students as resources. Our study suggests a need to …