Browsing by Subject "Mexican Americans"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)The dual purpose of this study was to ascertain if indeed school districts are fulfilling the intention of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, i.e. compensatory education for limited English-speaking students for whom ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This oral history of Mexican American educators examined the South Texas experience in light of a century-and-a-half of conflict which reflected juxtaposing Anglo Saxon and Chicano ideologies. Texans of Mexican descent who ...
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The citizen factories : the Americanization of Mexican students in Texas public schools, 1920-1945 (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)This study examined and recorded the Americanization movement as it affected the education of Mexican students (Mexican-American and immigrant Mexican) in Texas public schools in the period 1920-1945. Previous research in ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1953)
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968)
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)An evaluation of internal bias was conducted on the California Test of Personality (CTP), Elementary, Form AA with a sample of 1621 students in grades four through eight from a largely rural school district in southwest ...
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Fertility differentials and the redefinition of the normative structure across racial/ethnic lines (2009-05-15)The United States has seen tremendous growth since it has achieved a population of 300 million. Interestingly, events like this mask the heterogeneity of fertility behavior particularly along racial/ethnic lines. Unfortunately, ...
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(2018-05-18)Many Mexican American adolescents experience a unique set of cultural stressors, which can negatively impact adaptational outcomes. Research on stress and coping suggests that the link between a stressor and adaptational ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This study examined the contextual factors that led to the success of Mexican Americans who overcame extraordinary obstacles in obtaining post-secondary educations. Mexican Americans continue to experience great challenges ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of acculturation on the parent and teacher ratings of non-clinical Mexican American children's behavior, using the BASC Parent Rating Scale-C (PRS-C ) and the Teacher ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Although traditionally characterized by poverty and economic stagnation, the Texas border region has become one of the nation's fastest growing areas. This case study, based on Brownsville, examines community conditions ...
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(2012-07-16)Studies of Mexican American integration have come to a methodological and theoretical impasse. Conventional investigations have provided limited insight as they are outsider-based perspectives examining native-born ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The problem addressed in this research was: do identifiable patterns of participation in leisure activities exist among Mexican-Americans? Using data from a sample of 130 Mexican-Americans living in areas of high ethnic ...
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(2013-12-02)In this study, the author interviewed and observed six third generation Mexican American teachers in the South Texas borderlands region to examine their perceptions of the connections that they believed to be making with ...