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Aragon, Maria Jose – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), since 2010, has led to a growing concern among education scholars and practitioners about how the new standards will impact the educational trajectories of students from minoritized linguistic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds (Bunch, Walqui, & Pearson, 2014; Hakuta, Santos,…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Hispanic American Students, At Risk Students, Language Arts
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Beddow, Maggie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Dolores Huerta in 1962, dedicated his life to grassroots organizing to persuade lawmakers and the public to help improve the working conditions of migrant farm workers. In October 1992, the author had been teaching a unit of study on civics to her sixth grade bilingual students in…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Bilingual Students, Civics, Grade 6
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Martinez, Ramon Antonio – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This article reports findings from a qualitative study of Spanish-English code-switching--or "Spanglish"--among bilingual Latina/Latino sixth graders at a middle school in East Los Angeles. Analysis of the data revealed significant parallels between the skills embedded in students' everyday use of "Spanglish" and the skills…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Spanish, English, Qualitative Research