Born, Helena Loewen2014-03-142014-03-141991-07-01etd-07122007-103933http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38780Almost twenty-five years ago, James Coleman's Equalitv of Educational Opportunity reported that "Schools make no difference." Though it was received with dismay and frustration by liberal educators, the Coleman report was not the first to indicate that public schools give unequal access to the "American dream." Since that time theorists have attempted to develop models to explain why students tend to exit the educational system with much the same social and economic potential as their parents.vii, 256 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V856 1991.B676Dropouts -- United States -- Case studiesMexican American women -- Case studiesMexican Americans -- Education -- Case studiesDissertationhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07122007-103933/