THE SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY THAT WASN'T A LATINA STUDENT HAS AN EPIPHANY From: The Boston Globe | Date: May 9, 2004| Author: Alexandra Medina, Globe Correspondent | Copyright 2004 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

My English teacher once told me about a "self-fulfilling prophecy," the idea that if a person predicts and deeply believes certain events will come about, that person will, perhaps unconsciously, alter her behavior to create situations that will cause the events to happen.

My first instinct was to deny that this concept could ever apply to me. It bothered me until I remembered how I came to Boston Community Leadership Academy, formerly known as Boston High.

I chose the Boston Pub...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Assessing Graduate Students' Needs: The Role of Graduate Student Organizations Educational Research Quarterly ; The purpose of this study was to assess the academic needs of graduate students and to determine how students perceive the role of a departmental graduate student organization (GSO) in meeting expressed needs. Respondents included 31 masters and doctoral students enrolled in a child and family
	GRADUATE STUDENTS NEED, DESERVE UNION PROTECTION.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)(Editorial) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) ; Byline: Mark Rupert To the Editor: Syracuse University's administration has made clear its opposition to unionization efforts currently under way among our graduate students. As a member of the SU faculty, I believe the reasons are unpersuasive. In a letter to graduate students, Chancellor Kenneth
	Graduate students explore unionizing.(Business) The Washington Times ; University graduate students in metropolitan Washington are in the first stages of organizing unions to protect them from the traditional long hours and low wages of moonlighting as teachers. Graduate-student unions are part of a trend sweeping the nation, which could make the cost of college
	Temple University Graduate Students Vote to Join Union. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ; By Frederick Cusick, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 29--Graduate students at Temple University voted overwhelmingly yesterday ... 2001, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
	Statement on graduate students Academe ; The statement that follows was drafted by a subcommittee of the Association's Committee C on College and University Teaching Research, and Publication and approved for publication by Committee C in October 1999. Comments are welcome and should be addressed to the Association's Washington office.
	Professionalism: what graduate students need. symploke ; In what follows, I argue that we need to think more seriously about graduate education as professional training: that is, as training geared towards preparing students to perform the work of professional academics. (1) Implicit in my argument is, of course, the idea that we don't do this now. The
	Tutoring graduate students in the writing center. Academic Exchange Quarterly ; Abstract Graduate and professional students must learn new ways of writing, yet many of their programs offer little assistance. Writing center tutoring can help. Although pairing tutor and tutee from the same discipline works best, tutors from other disciplines can be effective if they respect the
	Union drive erupts at Yale Graduate students could be expelled The Boston Globe ; A bitter fight between Yale University and its teaching assistants, closely watched by graduate students and administrators across the country, escalates sharply today as Yale puts three students on trial for withholding undergraduates' grades. Yale graduate students who help teach undergraduates
	Graduate students union dies in Senate Honolulu Star - Bulletin ; State senators killed a bill that would allow University of Hawaii graduate students to unionize, but may pass a resolution encouraging the university to improve working conditions for teaching assistants. Senate Education Chairman Norman Sakamoto (D, Moanalua-Salt Lake) said a bill granting
	Pupil power; Student unions; Graduate students unionise.(United States)(Brief Article) The Economist (US) ; YOUNG people doing postgraduate work in American universities can already wear at least four hats-as student, researcher, teaching assistant and dissertation-writer. But how about shop steward? For the first time, graduate students at private American universities have been granted the right to

See all results.