College Ready at a Cost

Underrepresented Students Overwhelmed, Scared, Increasingly Stressed, and Coping

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9728909
AutoresMelissa A Martinez (0000-0003-2860-1230, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA, autor de correspondencia), Katherine Lewis (0000-0002-0674-2916, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, USA), Jocabed Marquez (Texas State University, San Marcos, USA)
Año2020
Volumen52
Número5
Páginas734-758
Fecha de publicación2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124519887713
OpenAlexW2985484854
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas28

As the push and expectation to attend college continues to increase, making the process of getting into college more competitive than ever before, there is a need to interrogate whether and how efforts to create a college-going culture and increase college readiness among students, particularly those from historically marginalized backgrounds, might have an adverse impact on students. This study illuminates 59 students’ voices who participated in a multisite descriptive case study examining the strong college-going culture and college readiness efforts at three racially and economically diverse urban public high schools in different regions of Texas. Although students revealed positive aspects of their schools’ efforts, this study focuses on some of the negative, unintended consequences related to how students felt and coped with being overwhelmed, scared, and increasingly stressed as a result of the narrow focus on college readiness. Such findings must be considered by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners alike

Coping (psychology · Higher education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Unintended consequences · Clinical Psychology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support