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The Latino Home School Project (LHSP) was a UCLA-housed, mixed-methods, longitudinal study of a sample of 121 Latinx kindergarteners judged by their respective schools to be Spanish speakers. These individuals and their families were followed from 1989 until 2005. Most of the parents were born in Mexico and Central America and had on average a 6th-grade education prior to immigrating to the U.S. Over the years, the study examined a range of topics relevant to the education of immigrants to the US., including literacy, language maintenance, ethnic identity, and college access and matriculation. The LHSP data are unique because they include ethnographic observations and interviews over multiple years as well as quantitative data. Over the course of this 15-year longitudinal study, 4 UCLA Ph.D. candidates used the data to complete dissertations and over 40 articles and conference papers have been produced, primarily authored by GSEIS faculty, alumni, and students. In addition, associated with the LHSP project was a series of school-based experiments and studies designed to improve teaching and learning: over 25 publications and papers were generated by this associated effort. A list of publications and a summary of LHSP findings prepared in 2005 are attached for your information. The LHSP data remains relevant to today’s ongoing public debates about immigration and immigrants from Latin America. Longitudinal datasets are not common, and even rare are mixed-method studies of working-class immigrants to the U.S. from Mexico and Central America. Further analysis or follow-up of LHSP data can meaningfully contribute to the often-unfortunate debates about Latinx immigrants. Materials include project files and audio recordings from a 15-year study done with 104 Latino families--children and parents--following them through K-12.

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Deposit

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Donated by Maria Estela Zarate, 2020.

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