The study by education professors at the University of Arizona offers new evidence of the positive impact the Mexican American Studies courses had on Tucson’s Latino student achievement, just as the courts are preparing to hear a new plan that may bring the courses back to the city’s public schools.
“These results suggest that there is a consistent, significant, positive relationship between MAS [Mexican American Studies] participation and student academic performance,” the study reads. The report also attempted to assess whether students who attended the classes had a higher chance of going to college, but the data was incomplete.
