Mapping the Road to College: First-Generation Students’ Math Track, Planning Strategies, and Context of Support

Title:	Mapping the Road to College: First-Generation Students’ Math Track, Planning Strategies, and Context of Support
Description:	This publication compares first-generation students (i.e., those whose parents have no more than a high school education) with their peers whose parents attended college. It focuses on mathematics course taking—the effectiveness of taking algebra in 8th grade and advanced math courses in high school in getting to college—and planning strategies students used to prepare for college. The report also examines the involvement of students’ parents, teachers, and other “institutional agents” capable of helping them prepare for college.
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Cover Date:	March 2000
Web Release:	January 19, 2000
Print Release:	December 23, 2003
Publication #:	NCES 2000153 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Laura Horn and Anne-Marie Nuñez
Type of Product:	Statistical Analysis Report
Survey/Program Areas:	High School Transcript Studies (HST) National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) Postsecondary Education Descriptive Analysis Reports (PEDAR)
Keywords:	Beginning Students in Postsecondary Education Coursetaking/Transcripts • mathematics and science Disadvantaged Students (Educationally) Higher Education • access and choice in Parental Involvement in Education
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