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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Dreams Deferred
  name:
    name part: Jones, Tracey Fashawn.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Heffer, Robert W.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  type of resource: software, multimedia
  genre: Undergraduate thesis
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    extent: 1 online resource (85 pages).
  abstract: Previous research confirms that some form of intervention is needed in urban schools to decrease the rising drop-out rate as well as teenage pregnancy rate and juvenile crime rate. This project can introduce intervention program advocates and supervisors to ideas that enhance the services they provide to students and parents. The goal is to better understand how best to improve students' self-esteem, motivation to succeed, and actual high school achievement. Education was central to my paper because research suggests that poor educational attainment and destitution complement one another Poor neighborhoods lead to poor school districts which in turn lead to scarce resources. A lack of materials and instructors correlate with decreased education opportunities and learning. People without a good education cannot obtain adequate jobs; and, adequate housing cannot be obtained without a substantial income. Thus, residents must settle for poor housing establishments which contain poor school districts. The cycle just repeats itself. In pinning down the factors leading to the utter hopelessness experienced by so many poverty-stricken families, I highlighted the relationships between poverty and school motivation, school achievement, teacher involvement and self-esteem among students at risk for dropping out. This is a demonstration of the disparity in educational practices and facilities between Black and White students and the subsequent need for educational intervention programs through review of the literature. I generated several broad postulates to work my research around: (a) there has been a historical disparity between Black and White educational facilities and practices; (b) Student achievement levels and educational placements are being determined by standard intelligence tests of questionable validity; (c) There exists a strong element of cultural discontinuity among, middle-class teachers who are placed in lower-class schools without (proper preparation) that a…
  target audience: specialized
  note: Undergraduate thesis written for Program year: 1992/1993
  note: Digitized from print version held at Pickle Center High Density Storage, barcode 24829590
  note: University Undergraduate Fellow, sponsored by Psychology Department.
  note: HDR
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: intervention program
  subject:
    topic: poverty
  subject:
    topic: school districts
  subject:
    topic: school motivation
  subject:
    topic: urban schools
  identifier: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/CAPSTONE-JonesT_1993
  record info:
    record creation date: 231116
    record change date: 20240301195813.7
    record identifier: in00004780492