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Through the voices of twenty scholars, this edited volume challenges widespread assumptions and discusses emerging perspectives on literacy for Latino students in grades K-12 throughout the United States. The volume's 14 chapters confront issues of racism, gender, social status, and economic deprivation often associated with Latino students in the public schools. The editors state the purpose of this research from the first page of the book; to focus on the resources that Latino students bring to school (culturally, linguistically, and experientially), and to help teachers tap into these resources. In doing so, Reyes and Halcón dispute deficit perspectives on Latino children's academic and intellectual ability, making the argument that for young Spanish speakers, support for native-language literacy, rather than suppression of it, results in higher achievement in both English and Spanish. The Best for Our Children is a thorough study of attitudes and approaches toward the use of Spanish in the educational system. Most solutions offered by educators, researchers, and politicians have failed to recognize that the real problem for educating Latino/a students in the United States does

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Author

Eva Nunez-Mendez

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0898-5898)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)