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  • Achieving Equity for Latino Students

    Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy

    by Frances E. Contreras ...
    Series series Multicultural Education
    Despite their numbers, Latinos continue to lack full and equal participation in all facets of American life, including education. This book provides a critical discussion of the role that select K–12 educational policies have and continue to play in failing Latino students. The author draws upon institutional, national, and statewide data sets, as well as interviews among students, teachers, and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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    Interview With Frances Contreras, An

    by Frances Contreras ...
    Narrated by Frances Contreras ...
    Series series Meet the Expert

    Unabridged

    19 min

    Dr. Contreras discusses the Latino education crisis and strategies for getting minority students on the path to college. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latinos and Education in the time of COVID-19

    Edited by Enrique G. Murillo Jr., Frances Contreras, Eligio Martinez Jr., Jacqueline E. Arroyo-Romano ...
    This book focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Latino/a/e/x students, families, and communities across the educational continuum to better understand the challenges faced by them.The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the gross inequities that exist for Latino students with respect to access to quality technology, highly qualified and culturally competent teachers, bilingual or multilingual ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • High Achieving African American Students and the College Choice Process

    Applying Critical Race Theory

    by Thandeka K. Chapman, Frances Contreras, Eddie Comeaux, Eligio Martinez Jr, Gloria M. Rodriguez ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
    By critically examining the legal, institutional, and social factors that prohibit or promote students’ college choices, this Volume undermines the notion that African American students and their families are opposed to formal education, and reveals structural barriers which they face in accessing elite institutions.For African American students, unequal education is rooted in the history in the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Latino Education Crisis

    The Consequences of Failed Social Policies

    by Patricia Gándara, Frances Contreras ...
    Will the United States have an educational caste system in 2030? Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this powerful book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group.Richly informative and accessibly written, The Latino Education Crisis describes the cumulative disadvantages ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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    Advancing Social and Health Equity

    Edited by Nina Wallerstein, Bonnie Duran, John G. Oetzel, Meredith Minkler ...
    The definitive guide to CBPR concepts and practice, updated and expandedCommunity-Based Participatory Research for Health: Advancing Health and Social Equity provides a comprehensive reference for this rapidly growing field in participatory and community-engaged research. Hailed as effective by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CBPR and CEnR represent the link between researchers and ... Read more

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  • Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality

    by Ben Kirshner ...
    Series Book 2 - Qualitative Studies in Psychology
    Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on AdolescenceDiverse case studies on how youth build political power during an era of racial and educational inequality in AmericaThis is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Closing the Opportunity Gap

    What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance

    Edited by Prudence L. Carter, Kevin G. Welner ...
    While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably connected, are very different goals. Every American will not go to college, but every American should be given a fair chance to be prepared for college. ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Latinos in American Society

    Families and Communities in Transition

    by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...
    It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Education Reform and Social Change

    Multicultural Voices, Struggles, and Visions

    Edited by Catherine E. Walsh ...
    Education Reform and Social Change is about addressing and changing the structures, policies, and practices of schools that differentially advantage white, middle class, native English speakers over students of color for whom English may be a second or additional language. It is also about helping people to think critically about what it is schools do and to consider more democratic, participatory ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Magic Key

    The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond

    Edited by Ruth Enid Zambrana, Sylvia Hurtado ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican American men and women. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors Zambrana and Hurtado have brought together research studies that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice

    A Critical Approach in Urban Schools

    by David E. DeMatthews ...
    This book advocates for informed leaders who are aware of the larger historical, political-economic, sociological, and philosophical issues that surround the schools and communities they serve. Extending beyond mainstream conceptions of instructional leadership and broad social justice paradigms, Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice offers a multidisciplinary framework that helps ... Read more

    $66.99 USD