Bibliomaniac: » Chicano School Failure http://library.csun.edu/blogs/jquinonez And you're researchin' like you never did before! Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:36:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Book a Week 4 http://library.csun.edu/blogs/jquinonez/2013/01/28/book-a-week-4/ http://library.csun.edu/blogs/jquinonez/2013/01/28/book-a-week-4/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:08:26 +0000 jquinonez http://library.csun.edu/blogs/jquinonez/?p=496 Continue reading →]]> I read the second edition of  Chicano School Failure and Success: Past, Present, and Future which is a really helpful source for additional sources.  What I enjoyed about this book is that each chapter or section could be it’s own reading list.  Any book dealing with the failings of the education system is a serious read, but there are many variables that impact the success or failure of Mexican American students in our education system.

San Miguel and Valencia asserted that due to a trilogy of oppressive Propositions passed in California and the adverse effects of the Hopwood case in Texas, “Mexican Americans [in California and Texas] face an educational crisis of unprecedented magnitude in the history of racial/ethnic minority education” (p. 354).

 

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