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This edited book offers a near comprehensive view on the challenges Latino students face throughout various levels of the US education system. A series of well-articulated contributions communicates a seamless experience for readers. Critical issues (e.g., societal identity, public policy, pedagogical practices, individual learning needs) carry readers through three interdependent sections...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. - G. Moreno, Northeastern Illinois University, in CHOICE, January 2015 ... an important and timely contribution that forces readers to rethink taken-for-granted discourse, policy, and practice in the field. This volume proposes not only to correctly frame the ways in which the policies addressing the needs of Latino/a students have failed and in many cases have served to reproduce marginality, but a different approach grounded on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that can inform meaningful policy changes. Jaime Grinberg, Montclair State University, USA Two elements distinguish this volume: its laser focus on policy, and its interdisciplinary and multinational nature... The sum effect...is to offer a more hopeful vision of education for Latinos/as while at the same time recognizing the difficult struggle that lies ahead. Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emerita), From the Foreword

"""This edited book offers a near comprehensive view on the challenges Latino students face throughout various levels of the US education system. A series of well-articulated contributions communicates a seamless experience for readers. Critical issues (e.g., societal identity, public policy, pedagogical practices, individual learning needs) carry readers through three interdependent sections...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.""- G. Moreno, Northeastern Illinois University, in CHOICE, January 2015 ""… an important and timely contribution that forces readers to rethink taken-for-granted discourse, policy, and practice in the field. This volume proposes not only to correctly frame the ways in which the policies addressing the needs of Latino/a students have failed and in many cases have served to reproduce marginality, but a different approach grounded on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that can inform meaningful policy changes."" Jaime Grinberg, Montclair State University, USA ""Two elements distinguish this volume: its laser focus on policy, and its interdisciplinary and multinational nature…. The sum effect…is to offer a more hopeful vision of education for Latinos/as while at the same time recognizing the difficult struggle that lies ahead."" Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emerita), From the Foreword"

This edited book offers a near comprehensive view on the challenges Latino students face throughout various levels of the US education system. A series of well-articulated contributions communicates a seamless experience for readers. Critical issues (e.g., societal identity, public policy, pedagogical practices, individual learning needs) carry readers through three interdependent sections...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. - G. Moreno, Northeastern Illinois University, in CHOICE, January 2015 ... an important and timely contribution that forces readers to rethink taken-for-granted discourse, policy, and practice in the field. This volume proposes not only to correctly frame the ways in which the policies addressing the needs of Latino/a students have failed and in many cases have served to reproduce marginality, but a different approach grounded on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that can inform meaningful policy changes. Jaime Grinberg, Montclair State University, USA Two elements distinguish this volume: its laser focus on policy, and its interdisciplinary and multinational nature.... The sum effect...is to offer a more hopeful vision of education for Latinos/as while at the same time recognizing the difficult struggle that lies ahead. Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emerita), From the Foreword

... an important and timely contribution that forces readers to rethink taken-for-granted discourse, policy, and practice in the field. This volume proposes not only to correctly frame the ways in which the policies addressing the needs of Latino/a students have failed and in many cases have served to reproduce marginality, but a different approach grounded on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research that can inform meaningful policy changes. Jaime Grinberg, Montclair State University, USA Two elements distinguish this volume: its laser focus on policy, and its interdisciplinary and multinational nature... The sum effect...is to offer a more hopeful vision of education for Latinos/as while at the same time recognizing the difficult struggle that lies ahead. Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emerita), From the Foreword

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Pedro R. Portes is The Goizueta Foundation Distinguished Chair in Latino Teacher Education and Executive Director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE), University of Georgia, USA. Spencer Salas is Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Patricia Baquedano-López is Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Paula J. Mellom is Assistant Research Scientist, University of Georgia, USA.

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