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Kasun, G. Sue – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Transnational Mexican-origin youth comprise a large and increasing number of students in U.S. schools, yet their teachers have often misunderstood their backgrounds and the conditions related to their transnational movement over borders. With such a large number of immigrant/transnational youth in the U.S. of Mexican origin, it…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Family Relationship
Hobbs, Tim; Silla, Vanessa; Beltran, Gloria – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this presentation is to identify the challenges faced by special educators throughout North America in meeting the needs of Mexican-American students. Recommendations will also be provided for collaborating with families from Mexico along the following dimensions: population and demographic factors, urbanization and the decline of…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Mexican American Education, Mexican Americans
Boulard, Garry – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Jesse S. Arrieta decided that her classroom instruction about the culture and history of people of Mexican origin wasn't enough. Arrieta, 27, who graduated from UTEP in 2002 before earning a master's in American history from the University of California,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, United States History, Transportation, Females