Tag: Latino students

Is the Feeling Mutual? Examining Parent-Teacher Relationships in Low-Income, Predominantly Latino Schools. By Hannah Miller Jessa Valentine Rachel Fish and Michelle Robinson

Image by Flickr user COD Newsroom Practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers consider family engagement with schools to be crucial to student success. When parents and teachers have strong relationships, they are more apt to share information about how a child is doing in home and school environments, and are better able to work together to help
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Teacher Collaboration and Latinos/as’ Mathematics Achievement Trajectories by Martha Cecilia Bottia, Stephanie Moller, Roslyn Mickelson and Elizabeth Stearns, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

What’s the Problem? Latinos and Latinas together comprise 16% of the overall population in the United States, and approximately 22% of the school-aged population. The percentage of school-aged children who are Latino/a is predicted to reach 30% by 2030. Arguably more important than the Latino population’s relative growth is the fact that their mathematics achievement
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The real education crisis: Latino educational attainment by Katie Reed

At least since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the popular media has referred to the “education crisis.” In most accounts of the crisis, it is defined cross-nationally. Compared to students in other developed countries, American students perform mediocre at best, or so the narrative goes. While I believe there is an education crisis that demands
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