In this study the essence of literacy is observed in the Portillo Community when working-class Mexican-American parents empowered each other by sharing their experiences to help their children in scho
The author shows how teachers honoring real culture can transform the context and content within their classrooms while creating learning settings that challenge students academically.
Gaitan, an ethnographic researcher and professor of sociocultural studies in education at the U. of California at Davis, explains how teachers can create a college culture for Latino students by socia
The author provides practical strategies for cultivating communication with Latino parents and including the Latino family in developing sustained academic improvement.
Educating Across Borders is an ethnography of the learning experience of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students living on the U.S.-Mexico border whose lives span two countries and two languages. A
