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Title: Ethnicity Matters

Ethnicity Matters

Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College

by Mary Jo Benton Lee (Volume editor)
©2006 Textbook XXII, 162 Pages
Education
Series: Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society, Volume 39

Summary

Ethnicity Matters – Rethinking How Black, Hispanic, and Indian Students Prepare for and Succeed in College focuses on four model programs that are highly effective in preparing students from underrepresented groups for college and in supporting these students through baccalaureate degree completion. The four model programs serve students from those ethnic groups that face the most serious problems of underrepresentation in American higher education – African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians. What sets these four programs apart from most other minority college recruitment and retention efforts is that they are built on this premise: Ethnic identity plays an empowering role in educational achievement.

Details

Pages
XXII, 162
Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820476025
Language
English
Keywords
USA Ausländischer Student Studienerfolg Aufsatzsammlung Ethnic identity Minority Academic achievement Education
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XXII, 162 pp.

Biographical notes

Mary Jo Benton Lee (Volume editor)

The Editor: MaryJo Benton Lee holds a Ph.D. in sociology from South Dakota State University, where she is Diversity Coordinator for the College of Engineering. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the SDSU-Flandreau Indian School Success Academy, an early and intensive college preparatory program that serves two hundred and fifty American Indian high school students. She is the author of Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment: How Minority Students in Southwest China Construct Identities (2001). She has written numerous articles and papers on issues relating to race and ethnicity, sociology of education, and Asian studies.

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