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"It's Difficult because of the Language": A Case Study of the Families Promoting Success Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Shartriya Collier, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 2, pp 10-15
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This article is published in Multicultural Education.The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: First language & Bilingual education.

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Student Perspectives Regarding School Failure at the American Samoa Community College

TL;DR: Student Perspectives Regarding School Failure at the American Samoa Community College by Siamaua Ropeti MEd, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2006 BEd and 2000 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education as discussed by the authors.
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A Mother's Humiliation: School Organizational Violence Toward Latina Mothers

TL;DR: The authors examines how Latina mothers experience violence in schools through everyday interactions with those positioned with greater power in our society, drawing on Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, and suggests an ideological stance that must be present for caring encounters to take place and some implications for teacher and administrative credentialing programs.

Parents’ perspectives towards home language and bilingual development of preschool children

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that if parents have positive views towards bilingualism, they are likely to use their mother tongue in the home and want their children to learn it, even if it is a minority language.

The Effects of Extended Reading Time on Third-Grade Students with Diverse Reading Needs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Title I Elementary Schools

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework of the problem of null hypothesis in the context of data analysis and propose a set of research questions to answer the null hypothesis questions.

Afterschool Program Effects on English Learners' Reading and Teachers' Reading Curriculum Perceptions

TL;DR: Afterschool Program Effects on English Learners' Reading and Teachers’ Reading Curriculum Perceptions by and afterschool program effects on teachers’ readingCurriculum perceptions by
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