This Month We Are Featuring Books On Hispanic/Latino’s Education

HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS AND CHOICE FOR LATINO STUDENTS: CRITICAL FINDINGS AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

Edited by: Patricia Perez, Miguel Ceja

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN-13: 978-1138084711

Part of Routledge Research in Higher Education, this unique collection of original scholarly articles offers critical insight on educational pathways that will help families, educators and policy makers intervene in ways that foster and sustain college access and participation for Latino students.

Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences and the home of Latino students shape their decision-making, educational aspirations and access to higher education.

THE LATINO EDUCATION CRISIS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILED SOCIAL POLICIES

Author: Patricia Gándara and Frances Contreras

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0674047051

Will the United States have an educational caste system in 2030? Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this powerful book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group. Richly informative and accessibly written, The Latino Education Crisis describes the cumulative disadvantages faced by too many children in the American school systems, where one in five students is Latino. Latino children are behind on academic measures by the time they enter kindergarten. The Latino Education Crisis is a call to action for everyone involved in planning the future of American schools.

EDUCATING HISPANIC AND LATINO STUDENTS: OPENING DOORS TO HOPE, PROMISE, AND POSSIBILITY

Author: Jaime A. Castellano

Publisher: Learning Sciences International

ISBN: 978-1-943920-21-1

Hispanic and Latino students now represent the largest ethnic group educated in the United States public school system. That means the ability to successfully educate Hispanic and Latino students, and prepare them for a meaningful future from pre-kindergarten to graduate school, is now of primary importance to the future of the United States.

Under this critical context, Jaime Castellano’s Educating Hispanic/Latino Students: Opening Doors to Hope, Promise, and Possibility arrives at the perfect moment to help educators better understand the Hispanic and Latino student demographic, and more importantly, uncover the strategies and implementation practices to better educate this burgeoning population.

LEARNING TO BE LATINO: HOW COLLEGES SHAPE IDENTITY POLITICS (CRITICAL ISSUES IN AMERICAN EDUCATION)

Author: Daisy Verduzco Reyes

Publisher:  Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9780813596471

In Learning to Be Latino, sociologist Daisy Verduzco Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life at a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university, outlining students’ interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students’ lives, including school size, the demographic profile of the student body, residential arrangements, and how well diversity programs integrate students. Together these characteristics create an environment for Latino students that influences how they interact, identify, and come to understand their place on campus.

Higher Education

This Month We Are Featuring Books On Education By New York University Press

EDUCATING THE WHOLE CHILD FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

Author: Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814738139

An examination of new approaches to educating children in a globalized world

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we are living in a global era, yet schooling systems remain generally reactive and slow to adapt to shifting economic, technological, demographic, and cultural terrains. There is a growing urgency to create, evaluate, and expand new models of education that are better synchronized with the realities of today’s globally linked economies and societies.

Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World examines one such model: the ethos and practices of the Ross Schools and their incubation, promotion, and launching of new ideas and practices into public education.

TEACHING WHAT YOU’RE NOT - IDENTITY POLITICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Edited by: Katherine Mayberry

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814755471

Can whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbian history? What are the political implications of the study of the colonizers by the colonized? More generally, how does the identity of an educator affect his or her credibility with students and with other educators?

Going beyond simplistic headlines, Teaching What You're Not broaches these and many other difficult questions. With contributions from scholars in a variety of disciplines, the book examines the ways in which historical, cultural, and personal identities impact pedagogy and scholarship.

KNOWING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING HISTORY

Edited by:  Peter N. Stearns, Peter Seixas and Sam Wineburg

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN:  9780814781425

As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a unique effort by an international group of scholars to understand the future of teaching and learning about the past. It will challenge the ways in which historians, teachers, and students think about teaching history.

The book concerns itself first and foremost with the question, "How do students develop sophisticated historical understandings and how can teachers best encourage this process?"

Published in conjunction with the American Historical Association.

THE CLASS - LIVING AND LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Author: Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9781479824243

Do today’s youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?

Based upon fieldwork at an ordinary London school, The Class examines young people's experiences of growing up and learning in a digital world. In this original and engaging study, Livingstone and Sefton-Green explore youth values, teenagers’ perspectives on their futures, and their tactics for facing the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.