LEARNING A NEW LAND: IMMIGRANT STUDENTS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

Authors: Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Irina Todorova

Publisher: Belknap Press

ISBN-13: 978-0674045804 

Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of these youngest immigrants’ lives, dreams, and frustrations. For some of these children, those heading off to college, America promises to be a land of dreams. For others, the first five years are marked by disappointments, frustrations, and disenchantment. 

The children of immigrants, here to stay, are the future--and how they adapt will determine the nature of America in the twenty-first century. 

ISSUES IN LATINO EDUCATION: RACE, SCHOOL CULTURE, AND THE POLITICS OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Author: Mariella Espinoza-Herold, Publisher: Routledge; 2nd edition  

ISBN-13: 978-1138228528

This text exposes the educational realities of Latinos (U.S. and foreign-born) in K–12 public schools in the Western United States from the students’ own perspectives, who offer pragmatic solutions to reduce the unchanging academic gap among culturally diverse groups. Their accounts are then compared with the viewpoints of a range of K–12 teachers on matters of community, learning, race, culture, and school politics. This critical case study provides food for thought and provokes reflection on the critical role that human interactions and networking play in attaining one’s dreams and aspirations.

THE LATINO EDUCATION CRISIS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILED SOCIAL POLICIES

Authors: Patricia Gándara, Frances Contreras

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0674047051

The Latino Education Crisis describes the cumulative disadvantages faced by too many children in the complex American school systems, where one in five students is Latino. Many live in poor and dangerous neighborhoods, attend impoverished and underachieving schools, and are raised by parents who speak little English and are the least educated of any ethnic group. Latino children are behind on academic measures by the time they enter kindergarten. The Latino Education Crisis is a call to action and will be essential reading for everyone involved in planning the future of American schools.

THE STORY OF LATINOS AND EDUCATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Author: Abdin Noboa-Rios 

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN-13: 978-1433167362

American public schools are in trouble, with national achievement reaching new lows and progress for nearly two-thirds of all 4th and 8th graders below proficiency levels and stagnant for years. According to the Nation’s Report Card, students of color rank lowest, with Latinos and African Americans consistently at the bottom. In this book, Dr. Noboa-Ríos relates the dark legacy before and after Plessy, as well as the post-Brown challenges that linger. For a better and more balanced future for the nation, America’s challenge is to ensure that Latino students excel. 

Multicultural Issues in Education  from Teachers College Press

CULTURALLY AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE ASSESSMENT

Author: Catherine S. Taylor

Publisher: Teachers College Press

ISBN-13: 978-0807766880  

This book addresses a problem that affects the work of all educators: how traditional methods of assessment undermine the capacity of schools to serve students with diverse cultural and social backgrounds and identities. This book presents a timely review of research on bias in classroom and large-scale assessments, as well as on how students’ level of engagement influences their performances. The author recommends practices that can improve the validity of students’ assessment performances by minimizing sources of bias, using culturally responsive assessment tools, and adopting strategies likely to increase students’ engagement with assessment tasks. 

GLOBAL MIGRATION, DIVERSITY, AND CIVIC EDUCATION

Edited by: James A. Banks, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Miriam Ben-Peretz

Publisher: Teachers College Press 

ISBN-13: 978-0807758090

In this volume, some of the world’s leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability, structural inclusion, and social cohesion. The authors consider how global migration is forcing nation-states to reexamine and reinvent the ways in which they socialize and educate diverse groups for citizenship and civic engagement. These chapters also address how schools can help migrant and immigrant groups attain the knowledge, values, and skills required to become fully participating citizens, while retaining important aspects of their home, community, languages, and culture.

IMMIGRANT-ORIGIN STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Edited by: Carola Suárez-Orozco, Olivia Osei-Twumasi 

Publisher: Teachers College Press 

ISBN-13: 978-080776194

This volume is the first to concentrate on the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of immigrant-origin community college students. Drawing on date from the Research on Immigrants in Community College Study (RICC), chapters highlight the unique needs of these students, the role of classrooms and campus settings, the importance of relationships, expectations versus outcomes, and key recommendations for policy and practice. The text deals with developmental challenges, language learning, the undocumented student experience, among others. Above all, this book looks at what community colleges can do to better help this growing population of new Americans succeed.

WHY RACE AND CULTURE MATTER IN SCHOOLS

Author: Tyrone C. Howard

Publisher: Teachers College Press

ISBN-13: 978-0807763094

Issues tied to race and culture continue to be a part of the landscape of America’s schools and classrooms. Therefore, it is essential that all school personnel acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions to talk, teach, and think across racial and cultural differences. This updated edition takes a deeper look at how schools must be prepared to respond to disparate outcomes among students of color. Tyrone Howard draws on theoretical constructs tied to race and racism, culture, and opportunity gaps to address pressing issues stemming from the chronic inequalities that remain prevalent in many schools.