Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Chicano Students and the Courts : The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality / Richard R. Valencia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical America ; 50Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource : 13 black and white illustrationsContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780814724040
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.73/0798 22
LOC classification:
  • KF4155 .V35 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 School Segregation -- 2 School Financing -- 3 Special Education -- 4 Bilingual Education -- 5 School Closures -- 6 Undocumented Students -- 7 Higher Education Financing -- 8 High-Stakes Testing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States. Chicano Students and the Courts is a comprehensive look at this community’s long-standing legal struggle for better schools and educational equality. Through the lens of critical race theory, Valencia details why and how Mexican American parents and their children have been forced to resort to legal action.Chicano Students and the Courts engages the many areas that have spurred Mexican Americans to legal battle, including school segregation, financing, special education, bilingual education, school closures, undocumented students, higher education financing, and high-stakes testing, ultimately situating these legal efforts in the broader scope of the Mexican American community’s overall struggle for the right to an equal education. Extensively researched, and written by an author with firsthand experience in the courtroom as an expert witness in Mexican American education cases, this volume is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the intersection of litigation and education vis-à-vis Mexican Americans.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780814724040

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 School Segregation -- 2 School Financing -- 3 Special Education -- 4 Bilingual Education -- 5 School Closures -- 6 Undocumented Students -- 7 Higher Education Financing -- 8 High-Stakes Testing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States. Chicano Students and the Courts is a comprehensive look at this community’s long-standing legal struggle for better schools and educational equality. Through the lens of critical race theory, Valencia details why and how Mexican American parents and their children have been forced to resort to legal action.Chicano Students and the Courts engages the many areas that have spurred Mexican Americans to legal battle, including school segregation, financing, special education, bilingual education, school closures, undocumented students, higher education financing, and high-stakes testing, ultimately situating these legal efforts in the broader scope of the Mexican American community’s overall struggle for the right to an equal education. Extensively researched, and written by an author with firsthand experience in the courtroom as an expert witness in Mexican American education cases, this volume is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the intersection of litigation and education vis-à-vis Mexican Americans.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)