The Politics Of Hispanic Education Essay

A questionnaire was given to a group of Hispanics born outside of the United States that contained four sections: background, simple skills like signing your name, literacy stimulation skills like reading, and finally oral. (Ortiz,P.152) When it came to the results, Hispanics born in the United States had a little higher level of literacy of 284.0 as compared to foreign-born Hispanics who had a 240.4. But when it came to English proficiency, native-born Hispanics and Foreign-born Hispanics were neck and neck at 3.6 on a scale from 1 to 5.(Ortiz,

The United States Hispanic population continues to increase each year. In turn, school populations of Hispanics increase as well. Hispanics, although improving academically, continue to have high school dropout rates, higher than other racial and ethnic groups and continue to lag behind school peers. The discrepancy between Hispanic students and other students’ achievement is the result of many factors, including acculturalization, language acquisition, poverty, and school factors. Schools

Sociologists have been studying the effects of education on Latino Americans and to their findings there are physical and conceptual issues which include: language barriers, issues with educators and peers which cause issues within their identity development and ultimately creating this separation of cultures which can effect Latino Americans success in school. While there are other factors that may be

This paper will try to explain the variety of hardships many Mexican-American students endure in hopes to gain a higher education. Many are driven by the “American Dream”, which is the idea that individuals living in the U.S. have the equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and abilities. The American Dream often motivates foreigners to enter the United States illegally, hoping for that “equal opportunity” to success. However, not everyone living in the U.S. has equal opportunities, compared to native-born American citizens. This is why it can be difficult for Mexican-American students to attend colleges and universities. A higher education is difficult to obtain for Mexican-American students because of their low socioeconomic status, their differing cultural and structural characteristics, and the social and political institutions in our current society. Although this paper does not focus on the educational opportunities in Mexico, this paper will mostly focus on the educational system in the United States, particularly California State University, San Bernardino. In addition, this paper will refer to Mexican-American students as first-generation college students.

When one thinks about Hispanics, all too often the image of a field full of migrant workers picking fruit or vegetables in the hot sun comes to mind. This has become the stereotypical picture of a people whose determination and character are as strong or stronger than that of the Polish, Jewish, Greek, or Italian who arrived in the United States in the early 1900's. Then, the center of the new beginning for each immigrant family was an education. An education was the "ladder by which the children of immigrants climbed out of poverty into the mainstream." (Calderon & Slavin, 2001, p. iv) That ideal has not changed, as the Hispanic population has grown in the United States to large numbers very quickly and with little fanfare. Now, the

In the educational setting, Mexican Americans have faced discrimination, segregation, and inequality for many years. This paper discusses the struggles and inequalities that Mexican Americans have faced in education. I will focus on different educational time periods and discuss the problems and struggles that occurred in those time periods. The time periods that I give focus to include education in the Spanish-Mexican era (1519-1848), education and early Anglo rule in the Southwest (1836-1890), the expansion of American education (1890-1960), and education in the contemporary period (1960-present).

Georgetown University Law Center ‘s reports show that immigrant children without legal status are no longer permitted to enroll in schools in the U.S. They are also denied access to vital educational resources. This report by the researchers of the center reveals that many immigrant students have faced long delays and have been turned away from schools.

If there is a true level of discrimination that lives within today’s society, that is something that especially needs to be addressed for the next generation of students. “Latino student enrollment in the U.S. public schools almost doubled, and projections suggest that by 2050, U.S. public schools will enroll more Latino than non-Latino students (Brenner, 508). For such a large percentage of Latinos feeling discriminated against as the reading suggests, there must be some type of underlying reason

Resources invested in the K-12 education of many undocumented Hispanic students are essentially being wasted due to the lack of student motivation for these students to further their education (Olivas,

Hence, our minority students have a lower academic performance which more often than not puts them at a greater risk of dropping out of school. Kuznia in his article “Racism in Schools: Unintentional But no less Damaging” presents the case of a Mexican Immigrant.

The perpetuation of poverty occurs in many ways in America one of which is educational inequities. Unfortunately, poor schools produce students which are ill-prepared to deal with the demands of college. This may be attributed to policies which negate the importance of bilingual/bicultural education for Latino students, especially those who are nonnative English speakers (Casas and Ryan, 2010). Take for example Proposition 227, in California which establishes the official language as English, undercutting the importance and notion of bicultural education (Casas and Ryan, 2010), something which appears to show promise for nonnative English speakers as a means to possibly close the academic disparities between Latinos and other groups. Improvements

As a future educator, the worries these students will have to endure in post-secondary education are really disheartening. Even though I will be teaching these undocumented students one day, I am embarrassed to say that these factors have never crossed my mind because it has never been a part of my life; however it has been a part of these undocumented students’ and their

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (2010) “Hispanic students make up for more than 11 million in the public elementary and secondary school system, and constituting more that 22 % of all pre – K students” (p. 1).

To survive in America’s cultural war, Latinos must realize that they have a right to their identity and must refuse to be silenced. Espada emphasize that the lingual discrimination faced by Spanish speakers in education and the judicial system is part of a larger scheme

With Latinos and Latinas being the largest minority group in the United States and predictable majority, many face victimizations from lack of resources unknowingly from family and deliberately from educational system to truly succeed in higher education. Primarily