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Author: Robert Crosnoe Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804755238 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 188
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Improving the educational success of the children of Mexican immigrants is crucial to the future prospects of these children as well as to the American population at large. This book documents how various aspects of these children's lives help or hinder their learning in elementary school.
Author: Robert Crosnoe Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804755238 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 188
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Improving the educational success of the children of Mexican immigrants is crucial to the future prospects of these children as well as to the American population at large. This book documents how various aspects of these children's lives help or hinder their learning in elementary school.
Author: Uvaldina Janecek Publisher: ISBN: Category : Children of immigrants Languages : en Pages :
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The influx of Mexican immigrants has posed enormous challenges to the nation's public school systems where migration is rapidly increasing. The high Hispanic dropout rate points to a failure in educating Latinos and has received ample attention from researchers, educators, and policymakers; but the achievement disparities persist. Using the lens of critical theory to investigate the presence of a "hidden curriculum" that promotes the dominant ideology in our public school system, this study explores perception gaps between Mexican immigrant parents and the American teachers of their children in a suburban Texas school district where Latinos are in the minority. The project applies a mixed method analysis using parallel survey items and qualitative input to address the following questions: (1) What perceptions and knowledge about education do Mexican immigrant families posses? (2) What perceptions of the culture and educational background of Mexican immigrants do U.S. teachers of Mexican-origin children possess? (3) What are the gaps in these perceptions and knowledge? (4) How do the immigrant families' perceptions and knowledge of the host culture affect their efforts to access U.S. educational opportunities? (5) What potential do these gaps have to affect the education of Mexican immigrant children in U.S. schools? The analysis uncovered the following perception, knowledge, and institutional gaps: (a) the inadequacy of preservice and inservice training for American teachers that serve Mexican-origin students and their families; (b) communication gaps between immigrant parents and teachers, especially secondary and general education teachers; (c) an undervaluation by teachers of immigrant parents' cultural and educational background and parents' capabilities to help their children academically; (d) a disregard for the previous studies of students transferring from Mexican schools; and (e) a failure on the part of the campuses to adequately provide parent involvement activities in the Spanish language. The findings of this study imply that Mexican immigrant families' experiences in this Texas suburban district affect their efforts to fully participate in U.S. educational opportunities because their communication with teachers, school staff and administrators is impeded by cultural and institutional barriers. The findings also indicate narrow prospects for immigrant parents' participation in the traditional campus parent involvement activities.
Author: Bryant Jensen Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807753920 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 361
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The "Latino Education Crisis" not only threatens to dash the middle class aspirations of the nation's largest immigrant group, it is also an ominous sign for democratic engagement and global competitiveness for U.S. society as a whole. This timely book argues that this crisis is more aptly characterized as a "Mexican Education Crisis." This book brings together voices that are rarely heard on the same stage—Mexican and U.S. scholars of migration, schooling, and human development—to articulate a new approach to Mexican-American schooling: a bi-national focus that highlights the interpersonal assets of Mexican-origin children. Contributors document the urgency of adopting this approach and provide a framework for crossing national and disciplinary borders to improve scholarship, policy, and practice associated with PreK–12 schooling.
Author: Rubén Donato Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438484542 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 206
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In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in their schools and communities between 1912 and 1953. Drawing from the Mexican Archives located in Mexico City and by venturing outside of the Southwest, their examinations of specific communities in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, and Texas shed new light on Mexicans' social and educational experiences. Donato and Hanson maintain that Mexicans—whether recent immigrants, American citizens, or Hispanos/as with deep roots in the United States—were not seen as true Americans and were subject to unofficial school segregation and Jim Crow. The book highlights similarities and differences between the ways the Mexican-origin population and African Americans were treated. Because of their mestizo heritage, the Mexican-origin population was seen as racially mixed and kept on the margins of community and school life by people in power.
Author: Carmina Brittain Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 304
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Publisher Provided Annotation Brittain studies how Chinese and Mexican immigrant students exchange information about their experiences of American schools. She considers three specific times: prior to immigration, upon entry to the U.S., and after a few years of living in the U.S. and attending U.S. schools. Students discuss academic demands, cost of education, value of the English language, social struggles, and racial confrontations with their co-nationals. Her findings highlight the fears and realities of racial discrimination, expectations of lower academic standards in America, and the unique ways the students' different cultural backgrounds shape their responses to immigration.
Author: Daniel Connolly Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250083060 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 269
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"In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college. Isaias, who passed a prestigious national calculus test as a junior and leads the quiz bowl team, is the hope of Kingsbury High in Memphis, a school where many students have difficulty reading. But Kingsbury's dysfunction, expensive college fees, and forms printed in a language that's foreign to his parents are all obstacles in the way of getting him to a university. Isaias also doubts the value of college and says he might go to work in his family's painting business after high school, despite his academic potential. Is Isaias making a rational choice? Or does he simply hope to avoid pain by deferring dreams that may not come to fruition? This is what journalist Daniel Connolly attempts to uncover in The Book of Isaias as he follows Isaias, peers into a tumultuous final year of high school, and, eventually, shows how adults intervene in the hopes of changing Isaias' life. Mexican immigration has brought the proportion of Hispanics in the nation's youth population to roughly one in four. Every day, children of immigrants make decisions about their lives that will shape our society and economy for generations.
Author: Sarah Gallo Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807775649 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 136
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Mi Padre centers on the promise of parent involvement practices that build upon the range of linguistic and sociocultural resources that Latin immigrant students and their families bring to school. Through the experiences of Mexican immigrant fathers and their children, this book illustrates the need for humanizing family engagement. Gallo identifies the many ways these fathers contribute to their children’s education and how educators can communicate more effectively with immigrant families. Mi Padre also shows the consequences of deportation-based immigration policies on elementary school education and offers strategies for supporting students and their families in the classroom. The author stresses the importance of learning from and with families and offers practical suggestions for how to build relationships with all caregivers as a counterpractice to the one-size-fits-all schooling that many teachers, students, and families experience today. “By highlighting fathers with a deep longing for the benefits and opportunities that a good education can offer their children, Sarah Gallo has documented how these men redefine what it means to be engaged in their children’s schooling. Teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and others will all benefit from this beautiful and powerful book.” —Sonia Nieto, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “A compelling and lucid example of activist scholarship rooted in rigorous ethnographic inquiry . . . a must-read for pre- and inservice teachers grappling with how to work in solidarity with families that are threatened by racism and exclusionary notions of citizenship.” —Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania, author of Partnering with Immigrant Communities
Author: Judith LeBlanc Flores Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 384
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Foreword by Eugene Garcia, Ph.D., Dean of Education, UCLA- Berkeley, former director of OBLEMA, U.S. Department of Education. Chapters: 1. Introduction- J.L. Flores; 2. Education in Mexico- V.A. de Herrera; 3. Mexico's Role in U.S. Education- R. Miller; 4. Border Task Reports from Southwest Educational Development Laboratory- B. Mace-Matluck, M. Boethel; 5. Recent Labor Department Data- P. Martin; 6. Reauthorized Migrant Education Program- A. Wright; 7. Binational Health Care- D. Garcia, K. Mountain, J. Martin, E.V. Mondragon; 8. Cooperative Learning for Binational Administrators, Teachers & Students- M. Calderon; 9. Migrant Education Binational Program- P. Martinez; 10. Migrant Writings & Narratives- R. Lynch, S. Kelly; 11. School Administrator's View- R.F. Loredo; 12. Teaching Mathematics to Bilingual Students- W.G. Secada; 13. Hispanic Voices in Children's Literature- J. Kibler; 14. Mexican-American History & Culture in the Classroom.- K. Escamilla; 15. Classroom Learning Strategies- M. Montavan, J. Kinser; 16. Migrants in High Schools- H. Romo; 17. Family Lives- N.F. Chavkin; 18. Parental Involvement- A.S. Sosa; To order contact ERIC-CRESS at Appalachia Educational Laboratory, P.O. Box 1348, Charleston, WV 25325, 800-624-9120.
Author: Robert Crosnoe
Author: Robert Crosnoe
Author: Uvaldina Janecek
Author: Alex Saragoza
Author: Bryant Jensen
Author: Rubén Donato
Author: Carmina Brittain
Author: Daniel Connolly
Author: Lydia Rivera
Author: Sarah Gallo
Author: Judith LeBlanc Flores