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Overcoming the Wall: Educational Achievement and Growth in School Districts on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Journal of Latinos and Education . 2023 22(4):1676-1692. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper compares the educational achievement and growth of Latinx third through eighth-grade students attending school along the U.S.-Mexico Border and in the interior of the four Border states. The theories of structural and legal violence predict that powerful Anglos have created systems of social reproduction, concentrated disadvantage, and immigration law that reduce Latinx education close to the U.S.-Mexico Border. We test these theories with data from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), which contains information on Latinx achievement and growth in all public school districts in the four Border states. We find that Latinx achievement and growth are similar along the Border and in the interior except in Texas, where concentrated disadvantage dramatically lowers Latinx achievement and growth. We also find that social reproduction is more beneficial for Latinx youth along the Border because, surprisingly, Latinx adults tend to be more educated near the border than in the interior. We find no evidence that immigration laws reduce education more near the Border than in the interior. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and policy.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1534-8431 and 1532-771X
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Latinos and Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1396977
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2022.2030289