Claims are often made about the impact of high school athletics on academic achievement without reference to empirical research on the issue. In this paper we empirically examine the relationship between the extent to which high schools have winning sports teams, offer a variety of sports options, and facilitate student participation in athletics on schools’ overall student achievement and atta...

Guided by the academic resilience perspective, the current longitudinal study examined whether academic motivation mediated the relation between Latino adolescents' (N=221) experiences with discrimination and their academic success. The potential moderating role of gender was also examined. Using multiple group analysis in structural equation modeling, findings indicated that perceived discrimi...

Higher education institutions record a significant amount of data about their students, representing considerable potential to generate information, knowledge, and monitoring. Both school dropout educational failure in higher are an obstacle economic growth, employment, competitiveness, productivity, directly impacting the lives students families, institutions, society as whole. The dataset des...