The Hope for Audacity

Monzu (education, Chapman U.) and Merz (education Indiana U.) give a call to action for the President and policymakers to promote equity and social justice in the education system. Through scholarly research and personal essays, racial, gender, class and language issues are examined with the goal of influencing decision makers to prioritize marginalized children, teachers and families and to improve access and outcomes for minorities in education. The authors have brought together passionate advocacy and pragmatic strategy to address realities such as globalization and funding constraints, resulting in a powerful, if fragmented, message. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lilia D. Monzo is Assistant Professor at the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. Her research involves ethnography with Latino immigrant children and families and the educational contexts in which they participate. She teaches courses in the teacher education program on diversity and bilingual education and second language learning. She also teaches doctoral level courses in qualitative research methods.
Alice Merz is Associate Professor at the College of Education and Public Policy at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Dr. Merz’s research focuses on case studies that examine how teachers become aware of and use interpretive lenses, such as the Reggio Approach, to guide their students’ work, discourse, and dispositions. She teaches methods courses in elementary mathematics as well as graduate research methods courses.