Latino Education An Agenda for Community Action Research This page intentionally left blank Latino Education An Agenda for Community Action Research A Volume of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project Editedby Pedro Pedraza Melissa Rivera CenterforPuertoRicanStudies,HunterCollege, CityUniversityofNewYork LAWRENCEERLBAUMASSOCIATES,PUBLISHERS 2005 Mahwah,NewJersey London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright(cid:1)C 2005byLawrenceErlbaumAssociates,Inc. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedin anyform,byphotostat,microform,retrievalsystem,orany othermeans,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. LawrenceErlbaumAssociates,Inc.,Publishers 10IndustrialAvenue Mahwah,NewJersey07430 www.erlbaum.com LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Latinoeducation:anagendaforcommunityactionresearch/editedbyPedro Pedraza,MelissaRivera. p. cm. “AVolumeoftheNationalLatino/aEducationResearchandPolicyProject.” Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-8058-4986-6(casebound)—ISBN0-8058-4987-4(pbk.) 1.HispanicAmericans—Education. 2.Actionresearchin education—UnitedStates. 3.Educationalequalization—UnitedStates. 4.Educationalchange—UnitedStates. I.Pedraza,Pedro,1946– II.Rivera,Melissa,1971–III.NationalLatino/aEducationResearchandPolicy Project. IV.Title. LC2669.L36 2005 371.829’68073—dc22 2005012014 ISBN 1-4106-1331-3 Master e-book ISBN ThisvolumeisdedicatedtoDr.Enrique(Henry)TorresTrueba for the countless hours you gave to those who needed your help,forthecompassionatemannerandhumanementorship youoffered,forthehumorandjoyyoubroughttogatherings, andforthecarin˜oandrespetoyousharedwithallwhocrossed yourpath. This page intentionally left blank Contents Foreword xi Preface xiii PARTI Introduction— CreatingtheCollectiveVision Chapter 1 OriginsoftheNationalLatino/aEducation ResearchandPolicyProject(NLERAP) 3 PedroPedrazaandMelissaRivera Chapter 2 ANewVisionforLatino/aEducation: AComparativePerspectiveonResearch Agendas 11 CarmenI.MercadoandLorriJohnsonSantamar´ıa PARTII SociohistoricalRevisioning Chapter 3 SettingtheContext:HistoricalPerspectives onLatino/aEducation 47 Victoria-Mar´ıaMacDonaldandKarenMonkman Chapter 4 TheIntellectualPresenceoftheDeficit ViewofSpanish-SpeakingChildren intheEducationalLiteratureDuring the20thCentury 75 BarbaraM.Flores vii viii CONTENTS Chapter 5 ExplanatoryModelsofLatinoEducation DuringtheReformMovementofthe1980s 99 MarthaMontero-Sieburth PARTIII ExposingtheColonizingEffectsofReform Chapter 6 LatinosandEducation:AStatisticalPortrait 157 He´ctorR.Cordero-Guzma´n Chapter 7 Standards-BasedReformandtheLatino/a Community:OpportunitiesforAdvocacy 165 Rau´lGonza´lez Chapter 8 StudentLearningandAssessment:Setting anAgenda 185 RobertRueda Chapter 9 California’sStandardsMovement:How EnglishLearnersHaveBeenLeftOut oftheEquationforSuccess 205 TeresaI.Ma´rquez-Lo´pez Chapter 10 ConPasio´nyConCoraje:TheSchooling ofLatino/aStudentsandTheir Teachers’Education 231 JaimeG.A.Grinberg,KatiaPazGoldfarb, andElizabethSaavedra PARTIV CollapsingtheParadox, ImaginingNewPossibilities Chapter 11 FightingtheBacklash:Decolonizing PerspectivesandPedagogiesin NeocolonialTimes 261 CarlosTejedaandKrisD.Gutierrez Chapter 12 TheEducationalSovereigntyofLatino/a StudentsintheUnitedStates 295 LuisC.MollandRichardRuiz Chapter 13 SocialActionandthePolitics ofCollaboration 321 OlgaA.Va´squez CONTENTS ix Chapter 14 TheoreticalPerspectivesonthe UnderachievementofLatino/aStudents inU.S.Schools:TowardaFramework forCulturallyAdditiveSchooling 343 AnthonyDeJesu´s PARTV ActualizingtheFuture Chapter 15 Latino/aFamilies’Epistemology 375 NitzaM.Hidalgo Chapter 16 Latino/aEducationinthe21stCentury 403 RaymondV.Padilla Chapter 17 Democracy,Education,andHumanRights intheUnitedStates:StrategiesofLatino/a Empowerment 425 RaymondRocco PARTVI RealizingthePowerofCommunityAction Chapter 18 ReflectionsonCollaborativeResearch andtheNLERAPProcess 457 PedroPedraza Afterword AProjectofHope:DefiningaNewAgenda forLatino/aEducationinthe21stCentury 463 SoniaNieto Appendix ANLERAP:EducationResearchFramework andAgenda 471 Appendix B IncorporatingLatinoCommunities intoEducationalResearch:Statement onMethodology 529 AbouttheContributors 539 AuthorIndex 549 SubjectIndex 559