"It's Going Good" Inner-City Black and Latino Adolescents' Perceptions About Achieving an Education  

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Kaplan, Elaine Bell

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Urban Education vol. 34 no. 2 (Mei 1999), page 181-213.
Topik: inner-city Black and Latino adolescent; policy; assets; problems
Fulltext: 181UE342.pdf (89.27KB)

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This article is based on in-depth interviews conducted with 39 inner-city Black and Latino adolescent students who were involved in a precollege tutorial academic program. The focus of this article is on the students' perceptions of the program, how it is structured, and how it changed their lives. Before they became involved in the program, the students were doing poorly in school and were influenced by a peer group who did not value educational achievement. The students discuss the difficulties of leaving the old peer group and learning to embrace the idea that they can achieve in school. As a result of the students' perceptions of this program, this article also addresses its broader implications in terms of policy, assets, and problems.

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