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Download full textCHARLES, EDGAR B., ED. – 1968
THIS SELECTED, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS 90 BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, AND UNPUBLISHED PAPERS ON THE EDUCATION OF MEXICAN AMERICANS. ALL DOCUMENTS WERE PRODUCED SOMETIME BETWEEN 1958 AND 1967 AND COVER THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF EDUCATION--PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, HIGHER, ADULT (BASIC AND VOCATIONAL), AND MIGRANT. A "USER…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies
Guskin, Judith T.; Alexander-Minter, Rae – 1980
This report presents an anthropological perspective on the legal, demographic and community issues involved in school desegregation in Los Angeles. Views on the desegregation process expressed by lawyers, school administrators, community members, educators, and anthropologists who attended a 1978 symposium are summarized. An historical and legal…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Community Role, Desegregation Effects
Prewitt, Steven W. – 2001
The history of San Felipe School District (Texas), 1894-1971, depicts a situation in which Mexican Americans had control of local schools. Established in the Mexican "barrio" of the racially divided border town of Del Rio, San Felipe resisted annexation to the Anglo school district and became an independent school district in 1929.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Cultural Maintenance, De Facto Segregation, Disadvantaged Schools
Raines, Rosario Torres; Albro, Ward S. III – 1992
This report describes a three-year faculty development program that successfully transculturated approximately one-third of the faculty and professional staff at Texas A&I University, a state institution in which over 50 percent of the student body is Mexican American. Transculturation entails a change process that focuses on changing the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Pluralism
Moreno, Jose F., Ed. – 1999
The year 1998 marked the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War, formalized the appropriation of half of Mexico's territory, and guaranteed Mexican-origin people in the appropriated territory the rights of U.S. citizens. The United States reneged on this promise almost immediately. Public…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Activism, Bilingual Education
Texas Kids Count Project, Austin. – 1995
This report presents information on the status of Hispanic children in Texas, with special emphasis on the comparative status of Hispanic children in counties along the Texas-Mexico border. Information was gathered from a literature review, state agencies, the 1990 decennial U.S. census, focus groups, and interviews. A demographic overview shows…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Rate
Peer reviewedCanning, Christine – High School Journal, 1995
A midwestern university provides cross-cultural student teaching experiences in a southwestern city with a large Mexican-American population. Features include two classroom placements, a course in multicultural education, and bicultural mentors. Data from 39 participants identified successful themes and practices in three categories: enabling…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedBrunn, Michael – Bilingual Research Journal, 1999
The absence of a language policy in a rural central Illinois school district with a rapidly growing population of migrant Spanish-speaking students seriously affected the academic achievement and social inclusion of newcomer students. A case study focuses on attitudes and reactions of three teacher groups: English-only teachers, "bridge…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Community Change, Educational Change
Peer reviewedFreeman, Yvonne S.; Mercuri, Sandra; Freeman, David E. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A bilingual teacher in a multiage 4th-6th-grade classroom has met the special academic needs of limited-English-speaking migrant students who immigrated from Mexico with little previous schooling. Her strategies and techniques include an accepting classroom environment, high expectations for every student, building on student background knowledge…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Direct linkFranquiz, Maria E.; Salazar, Maria del Carmen – High School Journal, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to present an argument for understanding the factors that support or constrain the development of Chicana/o students' academic identities and consequently, their academic resiliency in high school. The article draws on a larger study investigating ways that schooling structures and teacher mind-sets can sustain…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, High School Students, Educational Needs, Teacher Student Relationship
Valencia, Richard R., Ed. – 1993
This book examines the school failure and success of Chicano students from a wide variety of perspectives. It attempts to promote further understanding of what constitutes, maintains, and helps shape school failure among Chicano students, and to present research and policy agendas that may help to realize Chicano school success. Five sections…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Bilingual Education, Culture Conflict
Pearl, Arthur – 1993
Chicano school failure can be fully understood only when analyzed in the broadest political, economic, and cultural contexts. Objective economic and political conditions dynamically interrelate with schooling experiences to influence incidences of school success and failure. Any serious effort to reduce Chicano school failure must address the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Democratic Values, Disadvantaged, Economic Factors
Secada, Walter G.; De La Cruz, Yolanda – 1996
When children's own strategies for solving mathematical problems are not connected to the way mathematics is taught in school, students fail to make sense of mathematics instruction and begin to "fail." This chapter adopts the position that student understanding of worthwhile mathematical content is the essential goal of mathematics education, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning)
Highton, Benjamin; And Others – 1992
This document reports on the results of five surveys conducted during the 1980s by the Field Institute and Los Angeles Times that included questions of particular interest to the Latino community. Between 1982 and 1989, 6,668 California residents participated in the 5 surveys. Surveys included questions addressing the impact of Latino immigration…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitude Measures, Citizenship, Demography
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1976
Developed to enable teachers, counselors, and administrators in local school districts to provide Mexican American parents and students with needed information regarding student rights and responsibilities, this Spanish translation for the state of Washington provides general information concerning state regulations which school districts and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Board of Education Policy, Civil Rights, Discipline Policy
