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Where
are the academically successful Puerto Rican students? Five Success
Factors of High Achieving Puerto Rican High School Students
by Rene Antop-Gonzalez,
William Vélez, and Tomás Garrett
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Working
Paper No. 61
October 2003
Introduction
High achieving Puerto Rican high school students are largely
missing not only from urban high schools, but also from the educational
research. The purpose of this article, then, is to describe the five
success factors that ten low-income urban high school students from
this ethnic group attributed to their high academic achievement. These
success factors are 1) the acquisition of social capital and academic
motivation through religiosity and participation in school and community-based
extracurricular activities; 2) student affirmation of Puerto Rican
identity; 3) the influence of mothers; 4) the potential for caring
teachers to influence high academic achievement; and 5) membership
in multicultural/multilingual peer networks. Additionally, these success
factors and their implications for Latina/o education are discussed.
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