Choosing Higher Education: Educationally Ambitious Chicanos and the Path to Social Mobility

This is a study of high academic achievement found in the most unlikely places: among low-income Mexican Americans from homes with little formal education. It examines the backgrounds of 50 persons, male and female from one age cohort, who met most of the predictors for school failure or "dropp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patricia Gandara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 1994-05-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
Online Access:http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/671