Brokering College Opportunity for First-Generation Youth: The Role of the Urban High School

Duncheon, Julia C.; Relles, Stefani R.

doi:10.3102/0002831218788335

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“…These guarantees play a clear instrumental role in the prevention of corruption, financial irresponsibility, and unclean treatment. In connection with the above finding, Duncheon & Relles (2019) suggest that trust is a precondition for student agency. This particular element allows the students to trust any kind of information provided by their school, be it by flyers, information by third parties, or simply a presentation of a program.…”

Section: Councillors and Asocomunal Expressions Of Tenth Communementioning

confidence: 60%

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Community Actions: An Agency Topic for Human Development

Castrillón-Correa

Philominraj

Ranjan

2020

HSSR

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Purpose of the study: The objective of the study is to unveil the qualities that community actors in the city of Armenia-Quindío-Colombia have and enhance in the exercise of their community action. Methodology: The methodological approach of this research is qualitative-interpretative and cross-sectional. The investigation was carried out with eight community actors of an urban commune of the city of Armenia- Quindío-Colombia through semi-structured interviews, which focused on the meaning and significance of their community action. The interviews were conducted, and answers of the participants were analysed through a matrix in Excel. Main Findings: The study has identified that human agency is made up of Transparency and commitment, internal qualities in the subjects that allow them to act as community agents, by directing their actions towards a civic exercise and therefore as a contribution to human development. Applications of this study: The results of the study can be useful for the analysis of the performance of social actors in various contexts. The study will also be of help for the policymakers at local and national levels, to develop programs that strengthen the social skills of this group, as well as support in work where one wants to analyse the configuration of human agency. Novelty/Originality of this study: This research has examined the meaning of Community actions from the perspective of human agency. The originality of this research, when compared to the previous works on the same topic, lies in the identification of the qualities that form the agency in a population group, comprising of a widely diverse group of community actors. Besides, it also provides direction for future research in this area.

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Section: Councillors and Asocomunal Expressions Of Tenth Communementioning

confidence: 60%

“…An example of such trust is when students believed in Jackson Magnet institution (a pseudonym) that had people ever ready to help them. The trust reported by Duncheon & Relles (2019) is the equivalent of the Transparency found in community actors.…”

Section: Councillors and Asocomunal Expressions Of Tenth Communementioning

confidence: 99%

Community Actions: An Agency Topic for Human Development

Castrillón-Correa

Philominraj

Ranjan

2020

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“…The average baseline GPA for students in the treatment was 1.8, far below the 2.5 GPA requirement. While establishing high expectations for students' academic performance may seem to provide a positive incentive, other research suggests that students also need access to the resources and information necessary to meet those expectations (Fryer, 2010;Duncheon & Relles, 2018;Gast, 2016;Knight & Mariano, 2013). Moving from the average GPA of 1.8 to the 2.5 threshold, in retrospect, would have been very difficult for many students.…”

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The Promise of Free College (and Its Potential Pitfalls):

Harris¹,

Farmer-Hinton²,

Kim³

et al. 2020

Improving Research-Based Knowledge of College Promise Programs

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T he price of college is rising, making college feel out of reach for a rising share of Americans. Families can borrow to be sure, but with total student loan debt now above $1 trillion nationally, the situation seems unsustainable. Meanwhile, we face a long-term decline in our international ranking on college attainment and the disparities in college access by race and income-disparities that financial aid and loans are supposed to address-seem larger than ever. It is no surprise then that in the campaign for U.S. President in the 2016 election, nearly all candidates of both major political parties raised the issue of college affordability. Increasing financial aid to students is one obvious potential solution. Once limited to discussions of the size of need-based aid programs such as Pell grants and state-based merit aid programs, new forms of aid have emerged. Place-based "promise scholarships" provide funds to students attending schools in certain cities and states. Others have proposed changes on a national scale, increasing and redesigning financial aid to eliminate student loan debt, called debt-free college, or going even further by eliminating tuition, fees, and/or some share of living expenses-free college. This study examines one of the first randomized control trials of a program similar to many free college and promise scholarship proposals. The Degree Project was launched in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) in 2011. Students in 18 randomly selected high schools were promised up to $12,000

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“…Schools with strong college-going cultures provide students with the skills and knowledge required for postsecondary success beginning in the ninth grade (Tierney et al., 2005). Developing a college-going culture is especially crucial in low-performing high schools that serve primarily low-income students of color (Achinstein, Curry and Ogawa, 2015; Duncheon, 2015; Nunez and Kim, 2012), who may not have access to information about higher education outside the school (McKillip et al., 2012 Duncheon and Relles, 2019).…”

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“…However, large equity gaps persist; students who are low-income, first generation (i.e., first in their families to attend college), and/or of color have disproportionately lower completion rates compared with their higher-income, continuing generation White peers (Banks and Dohy, 2019; McFarland et al, 2019). Increasing postsecondary equity depends in large part on improving college preparation for traditionally underrepresented students (Duncheon and Relles, 2019; Venezia and Jaeger, 2013). High school context therefore plays a critical role in facilitating or impeding college opportunity (Astin and Oseguera, 2012; Hill, 2008; Nunn, 2014; Welton and Martinez, 2014).…”

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Broadening conceptions of a “college-going culture”: The role of high school climate factors in college enrollment and persistence

Knight

Duncheon

2019

Policy Futures in Education

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As workforce participation increasingly requires a college degree, ensuring that more students from traditionally underrepresented populations have the opportunity to enter and complete college is an equity imperative. To that end, high school reforms have promoted “college-going cultures” in low-performing high schools through interventions such as rigorous course offerings and college counseling. College access research has focused on issues specific to academics and college-going processes. Yet this research has tended to ignore broader school climate factors such as school safety and extracurricular programming, which may play a critical role in postsecondary opportunity, especially for historically underserved students. The current study applies hierarchical generalized linear modeling to the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to 2006 to examine the role of college-going culture and high school climate characteristics on college enrollment and persistence. We find that while some components of college-going culture are associated with the likelihood of college enrollment and persistence, that relationship is moderated by school climate factors. We conclude that efforts to implement a college-going culture may struggle if extracurricular opportunities, school safety, and overall school climate issues are ignored.

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Brokering College Opportunity for First-Generation Youth: The Role of the Urban High School

Cited by 16 publications

References 52 publications

Community Actions: An Agency Topic for Human Development

Community Actions: An Agency Topic for Human Development

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Broadening conceptions of a “college-going culture”: The role of high school climate factors in college enrollment and persistence

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