The education of the Hispanic education, selected essays

This volume brings together the latest research and scholarship on Latinos in the United States. This book is special in terms of the broad scope of topics covered and methodologies employed in pursuit of knowledge about Latino students. This collection is also unique in that it features the work of...

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Other Authors Gastic, Billie (Editor), Verdugo, Richard R. (Editor), Berardino, Michael (Editor), Coronado, Diana Yadira Salas (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2013]
SeriesHispanic population in the United States (Charlotte, N.C.)
Subjects
Hispanic Americans > Education.
Hispanic American students > Social conditions.
Education > Student Life & Student Affairs.
Education of bilingual or multilingual students.
Educational administration and organization.
Student life.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806614172
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-958-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 274 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Education and the future of Latinos in the United States / Pedro A. Noguera
  • Preface / Billie Gastic and Richard R. Verdugo
  • Chapter 1. Latina/o high school students' academic track placement and their mathematics achievement / Eduardo Mosqueda
  • Chapter 2. The Latino paradox? School segregation and Latino student achievement / Stephanie Potochnick and Sudhanshu Handa
  • Chapter 3. Beyond school structures and individual blame: Centralizing school culture to understand and respond to the Latina/o dropout crisis / Louie F. Rodriguez
  • Chapter 4. Hispanics, Hispanic immigrants, and the Hispanic dropout rate / Richard R. Verdugo
  • Chapter 5. Dropping in, not out: Educational aspirations and experiences of Latino immigrant youth in new york city / Marguerite Lukes
  • Chapter 6. Navigating middle school transitions: The role of track placement, peer networks, and teacher support in shaping a sense of belonging to school / Eréndira Rueda
  • Chapter 7. Immigrant student educational experiences in an emerging Latina/o community in the midwest / Melissa Quintela
  • Chapter 8. Do I look illegal? Undocumented Latino students and the challenges of life in the shadows / Mariela Nuñez-Janes and Shaun Chapa
  • Chapter 9. Mexican-American schoolchildren in U.S. Public schools: A review of social science research on the Mexican-American family's cultural capital / Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Ruben Martinez, Sandra Barboza
  • Chapter 10. The educational benefits of mentoring for Latino youth: Insights from a national study / Billie Gastic, Diana Salas Coronado, David González Nieto
  • Chapter 11. Urban Latino parents' narratives of parent involvement / Mary Christianakis and Richard Mora
  • Chapter 12. Latino parent involvement and the school system: Deconstructing isolation and inequality / Edward M. Olivos and Marcela Mendoza
  • Chapter 13. Meeting the needs of Hispanic students in public schools: Implications for principal preparation / Mariela A. Rodríguez, María Luisa González, and Encarnacion Garza, Jr
  • Chapter 14. The role of dual credit/dual enrollment courses in the recruitment and retention of Hispanic students in higher education / Belinda Roman
  • Chapter 15. Does the mismatch hypothesis apply to Hispanic students at selective colleges? / Joanne W. Golann, Kerstin Gentsch, Chang Y. Chung, and Thomas J. Espenshade
  • Chapter 16. Leaving Latino males behind / Theresa Montaño and John Perez
  • Chapter 17. From a man's perspective: Latino men's outlook on the campus community / Darnell Cole and Araceli Ayala Espinoza
  • Chapter 18. UN camino solitario!/a lonely road!: Chicana/o faculty storytelling and counterstorytelling in academia / Juan Carlos González, Gloria Vaquera, Cynthia Bejarano and Edwardo L. Portillos
  • About the authors.

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