This article analyzes data from a summer literacy program for intermediate and middle-level children of migrant farmworkers. The program was grounded in a sociocultural perspective on literacy, stressing the importance of interaction and collaboration within socioculturally responsive pedagogy, using enabling literature to empower students.…

This article examines how Chicana/o and Latina/o youth employed their political-historical knowledge to "talk back" to the xenophobia and political contradictions that underlie the (im)migration "debate." A literacy unit that honed bilingual students' everyday translating created opportunities for students to utilize this political-historical…

The purpose of this study is to determine if children who attend a bilingual math-science center will increase their level of performance to a greater degree than their counterparts on a test of problem solving and scientific thinking. The study tests 86 sixth-grade students in the Cutler Elementary School in the Cutler-Orosi Unified School…

Project ABRAZO is a bilingual research program designed to investigate strategies which might enhance the self-concept of Mexican-American children. A portion of the baseline data collected for ABRAZO is considered with three purposes in view: (1) Is there any difference between the self-concept of Mexican-American children, non-Mexican-American…