Chicano School Failure and Success: Past, Present, and Future

Third Edition

Edited by: Richard R. Valencia

This third edition of the best-selling collection, Chicano School Failure and Success, presents a complete and comprehensive review of the multiple and complex issues affecting Chicano students today.

Richly informative and accessibly written, this edition includes revised and updated chapters that incorporate recent scholarship and research on the current realities of the Chicano school experience. It features four new chapters on important topics such as la Chicana, two way dual language education, higher education, and gifted Chicano students.

Contributors to this edition include experts in fields ranging from higher education, bilingual education, special education, gifted education, education psychology, and anthropology.

WestEd's Ann-Marie Wiese cowrote a key chapter on language, public policy, and schooling.

In order to capture the broad nature of Chicano school failure and success, contributors provide an in-depth look at diverse topics, including:

• Chicano student dropout rates
• The relationship between Chicano families and schools
• The impact of standards-based school reform and deficit thinking on Chicano student achievement

Committed to understanding the plight and improvement of schooling for Chicanos, this timely new edition addresses all the latest issues in Chicano education and will be a valued resource for students, educators, researchers, policymakers, and community activists alike.