Drawing on the best of the past 20 years of Journal of Latinos and Education, the collection highlights seminal work addressing complex educational issues impacting Latinos. Chapters discuss applying knowledge to real-world problems while engaging with the interests of key stakeholders in other sectors outside the traditional ac

Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. is Professor of Education at California State University, San Bernardino. He is the founding Editor¿in¿Chief of the Journal of Latinos and Education (JLE), and of the Handbook of Latinos and Education (HLE). Additionally, he is the founder of the National Latino Education Network (NLEN), and Latino Education & Advocacy Days (LEAD), the objective of which is to promote a broad¿based awareness of the crisis in Latino education and to enhance the intellectual, cultural, and personal development of our community's educators, administrators, leaders, and students.

Biographical Sketch

El Futuro es Nuestro: From the Editor's Desk

Credits

SECTION I

Tasks

1 "Mexican Americans Don¿t Value Education!"¿On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and Debunking

RICHARD R. VALENCIA AND MARY S. BLACK

2 Funds of Knowledge: An Approach to Studying Latina(o) Students¿ Transition to College

CECILIA RIOS-AGUILAR AND JUDY MARQUEZ KIYAMA

3 All for Our Children: Migrant Families and Parent Participation in an Alternative Education Program

PABLO JASIS AND DOUGLAS MARRIOTT

4 Quantitative Intersectionality: A Critical Race Analysis of the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline

ALEJANDRO COVARRUBIAS

5 Challenges Facing Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the First Decade of the 21st Century

ALFREDO G. DE LOS SANTOS JR. AND KARINA MICHELLE CUAMEA

5 Nuestro Camino: A Review of Literature Surrounding the Latino Teacher Pipeline

KELLY M. OCASIO

SECTION II

Themes

7 Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al.: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912¿1914

RUBEN DONATO, GONZALO GUZMÁN, AND JARROD HANSON

8 Latino English Language Learners: Bridging Achievement and Cultural Gaps Between Schools and Families

MARY ELLEN GOOD, SOPHIA MASEWICZ, AND LINDA VOGEL

9 Understanding Latina/o School Pushout: Experiences of Students Who Left School Before Graduating

NORA LUNA AND ANITA TIJERINA REVILLA

10 Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios of Schooling and Survival

WANDA ALARCÓN, CINDY CRUZ, LINDA GUARDIA JACKSON, LINDA PRIETO, AND SANDRA RODRIGUEZ-ARROYO

11 The Value of Education and Educación: Nurturing Mexican American Children¿s Educational Aspirations to the Doctorate

MICHELLE M. ESPINO

12 Mapping and Recontextualizing the Evolution of the Term Latinx: An Environmental Scanning in Higher Education

CRISTOBAL SALINAS JR. AND ADELE LOZANO

SECTION III

Solutions

13 Abuelita Epistemologies: Counteracting Subtractive Schools in American Education

SANDRA M. GONZALES

14 Sustaining a Dual Language Immersion Program: Features of Success

ILIANA ALANÍS AND MARIELA A. RODRÍGUEZ

15 Beginning With El Barrio: Learning From Exemplary Teachers of Latino Students

JASON G. IRIZARRY AND JOHN RAIBLE

16 The Relationship Between a College Preparation Program and At-Risk Students¿ College Readiness

JENNIFER T. CATES AND SCOTT E. SCHAEFLE

17 Latina/o Parent Organizing for Educational Justice: An Ethnographic Account of Community Building and Radical Healing

KYSA NYGREEN

18 Dream Big: Exploring Empowering Processes of DREAM Act Advocacy in a Focal State

BRAD FORENZA AND CAROLINA MENDONCA

19 Multiple Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Identities in Action: From Marginality to a New Cultural Capital in Modern Society

HENRY T. TRUEBA

Index