Title IX Turns 40
June 19, 2012
—Deborah Brake June 23, 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of one of our greatest civil rights laws, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bans discrimination based on… READ MORE
Category: Education
To DREAM, Perchance to Immigrate
June 15, 2012
—Michael A. Olivas Recent U.S. Census figures have noted the rise in Latino births, resulting in the demographic developments that will make Latino children such a substantial public school population,… READ MORE
Immigrant DREAMs Deferred
April 27, 2012
By Michael A. Olivas In his recent Americas Quarterly article, “The Dream Deferred,” fellow NYU Press author Marcelo Suárez-Orozco usefully sketches the demographic developments in the United States that have combined to… READ MORE
“De facto, we are punishing millions of children”
In case you missed it, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, co-editor of Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World (new in paperback), speaks with Americas Quarterly about the “legal, policy, economic, and ethical considerations” that… READ MORE
Making the banned book list: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
February 3, 2012
With one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws on the books, Arizona recently targeted Latino schoolchildren and the books teachers use to inform them about Latino history and culture. Last month, the Tucson Unified… READ MORE
Victor Rios: From gang member to PhD
Yesterday, PBS NewsHour featured a fantastic piece on Victors Rios, author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys and former gang member/high school dropout. The video below… READ MORE
The DREAM of educational equity for undocumented children
November 16, 2011
An estimated 10,000 undocumented youth graduate from city high schools in New York each year. Access to funding for university-level education, however, is a challenge. Currently, those who qualify for… READ MORE
Cary Nelson: Your Children Need Professors With Tenure
October 6, 2010
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cary Nelson, author of No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom, explains why we should give professors more job security: “So what?” you… READ MORE