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The Latino education crisis : the consequences of failed social policies /

"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 grou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gandara, Patricia C. (Autor), Contreras, Frances, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Edición:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a call to action
  • Crisis and the context
  • On being Latino or Latina in America
  • American schools and the Latino student experience
  • Is language the problem?
  • Inside the lives of Puente students
  • Beating the odds and going to college
  • Costs and effectiveness of intervention
  • Rescatando sueñ̃os = Rescuing dreams.