Promoting Academic Success Among Latino Youths

By Charles R. Martinez, D. DeGarmo, J. Mark Eddy. 2004

272 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Education

1. Pauline Garcia-Reid
2. Tovah Sands
3. C. S. Henry
4. Sandra Abarca-Mortensen
5. T. Shaw
6. Scott W. Plunkett
7. C. Kearney
8. Benjamin J. Houltberg

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Pauline Garcia-Reid
2. C. S. Henry
3. T. Shaw
4. Scott W. Plunkett
5. Tovah Sands
6. C. Kearney
7. Ann L. LeFevre

Citations in the corpus

• An Interdisciplinary Model of School Absenteeism in Youth to Inform Professional Practice and Public Policy (2008, background): “cultural differences between families and school officials, lax family attitudes about academic progress or developmental milestones, family–school official conflict and mistrust, family resistance toward acculturation, teacher absenteeism, and school-based racism and discrimination (Brand and O’Con”
• Academic Support by Significant Others and Educational Resilience in Mexican-Origin Ninth Grade Students From Intact Families (2008, background): “Martinez et al. (2004) found that Latino youth with higher grade point averages were less likely to drop out of school.”
• School Engagement Among Latino Youth in an Urban Middle School Context (2005, background): “Collaborating with parents to identify the support needs of their children, and brainstorming with them about techniques, can serve to increase support in the classroom environment and may enhance learning opportunities for Latino youth (Martinez et al., 2004; Rosenfeld et al., 1998).”
• Examining Social Capital as a Mechanism for Improving School Engagement Among Low Income Hispanic Girls (2007, background): “…of school engagement among Hispanic adolescents, and such support provided by teachers has been found to have an equally beneficial effect on reducing the likelihood of school failure among this population (Brewster & Bowen, 2004; Garcia-Reid, Reid, & Peterson, 2005; Martinez et al., 2004).”
• Latino Parent Involvement and School Success (2012, background): “In fact, parental support has been found to be a key predictor of Latino academic achievement, beyond the effects of teacher and peer support and other demographic factors such as parent education, nativity, and language proficiency (Alfaro et al., 2006; Behnke et al., 2004; DeGarmo & Martinez, 2006”