Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K–College

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Index academic excellence, 14, 19, 112–114 academic expectations: improvements in, 42–43, 71; lowered, 4, 11, 89, 117, 151; raised, 5, 71; and values, 67, 74 academic freedom, 146 adjectives and adverbs, 179–180 administrators. See teachers and administrators Advanced Placement courses, 141, 151, 204n4 Affirmative Action policies, 75, 195n1 African American students, 5, 16, 49, 54, 57, 74–75, 97, 99, 117, 133; dropout rate among, 60; and Hispanics, 5, 192n2. See also minority students alternate education programs, 45–46, 187 Anderson, James, 201–202n1 And with a Light Touch: Learning about Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders (1993), 207n1 (Ch. 12) anxiety: costs of, 38; frustrations of, 42–43, 45, 52–69, 91; and lawsuits, 45; as seen in struggling students, 91, 96, 151; students as cause of, 46 athletics, 27, 28, 32, 125 Avery, Carol, 207n1 (Ch. 12) barrio stories, 17, 24, 42, 43–44 behavior. See classroom behavior problems Bell, Derrick, 74, 202n4 Bell Curve, The: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1996), 195n1 Benjamin, Roger, 208–209n1 Biber, D., 209n2 Big Test, The: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (1999), 195n1 bilingual education, 72–73, 78, 83, 108–111, 123–124, 126, 150 bilingual personnel, 60, 109 Black English, 133 Black Issues in Higher Education, 201–202n1 boards of education. See school boards and boards of education Bok, Derek, 19, 195n1 bonds, school, 18, 128 Bowen, William, 19, 195n1 Brown University, 192n1 Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 15–16, 192n2, 201–202n1 Bryan–College Station Eagle, 200–201n2, 209n3, 209–210n1 bureaucracy of education, 47, 103–111 Bush, George W., 198n1, 203n5 Byrne, Dara, 201–202n1 Carlos H. Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity Endowment at Texas A&M University, 1, 191n1 Carnegie Corporation of New York, 192n1, 210n2 Carrasquillo, Angela, 191n3 Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 191n3 Center for the Prevention of School Violence , 199–200n5 Centering Theory in Discourse (1998), 209n2 218 quality education for latinos and latinas Chahín, Jaime, 203 Change Forces: The Sequel (1999), 198–199n4 Charles Steward Mott Foundation, 210n2 charter schools, 156 Children Are from Heaven (1999), 208n3 choreographing writing, 177–183 Chronicle of Higher Education, The, 192n1, 194–195n8, 202n2 (Ch. 5), 210n2 Cinco de Mayo, 78 Cisneros, Sandra, 17 civic virtues, 162–165 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 15, 206–207n4 civil rights of students, 164 classroom behavior problems, 107; interrupting a teacher, 155 class size, 118, 119 clauses, importance of, in writing, 166–176 clichés, 175 Clinton, Bill, 78 Cobb, Kim, 192n2 Cohesion in English (1976), 209n2 college and university curricula, 158 college-bound students, 140; and advanced courses, 21; and graduation from college, 151, 194–195n8; minority students as, 54, 61, 117, 150–151, 195n1. See also higher education college entrance examinations, performance of minority vs. white students on, 9, 19, 54, 117, 195n1 college hazing, 202–203n3 colleges of education, 156, 192n1, 198–199n4 colonias, 83, 203n5 color-blindness, 77 Comer, James P., 117, 204n1 communication: professional, 49, 80, 96, 103, 108–110, 121; skills, nourishment of, 154, 160, 179 community colleges, 129, 194–195n8 complaints, 33, 34, 40, 107; of administrators , 9; of teachers, 9, 44, 60, 127 composition and rhetoric, 168–176 Core Knowledge Foundation, 196n2, 207–208n1 Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 200n1 costs of education, new funding for, 2, 89 counselors, school, 37, 41, 107; advising students, 54, 96, 129–130, 139, 141 creativity and imagination: in students, 163, 172; in teachers, 23, 35, 78, 128, 152, 177–183 crime, drugs, and violence, 37, 53, 68, 87, 93; and education, 94, 98 critical thinking skills, 153, 158–159, 161, 162, 163; testing of, 155 Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (1987), 146, 207–208n1 culture, school, 136–141 cultural mores: issues regarding, for research, 119, 198n2; sensitivity and respect toward, 50, 83, 133; teacher and administrative responses to, ix, 11 curricular content: care regarding, 38; changing, 23, 160; common components of, 157; and flexing mental muscles, 137; importance of, 66, 117, 148; relevance of, 53, 110, 145; specificity of, 34–35; that engages student attention, 156, 177–183 Dallas Morning News, 46, 199–200n5, 203n4 Daviss, Bennett, 197–198n1 Delgado v. Bastrop Independent School District (1948), 44, 198n3, 202n3 (Ch. 5) delinquency, 73 demography and the twenty-first century, 1–4, 38–39, 46, 63, 89, 93, 187–188, 194–195n8 desegregation, 80 detention hall, 59 Dewey, John, 146, 207–208n1 Día de los Muertos...