The Latino education crisis
Subtitle: the consequences of failed social policies
By: Patricia Gándara, Frances Contreras.
Contributors: Contreras, Frances, 1972-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780674031272
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Education; Hispanic American students -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The crisis and the context; title: On being Latino or Latina in America; title: American schools and the Latino student experience; title: Is language the problem?; title: Inside the lives of Puente students; title: Beating the odds and going to college; title: The costs and effectiveness of intervention; title: Rescatando suenos, rescuing dreams.