History of Hispanic/Latino Segregation
Subtractive Schooling
Current Policies/Facts
Relating to Other Authors
100
I was sent to protect the Texas border after the annexation by the United States. My presence there sparked a military reaction in Mexico resulting in war declared on May 13, 1846.
Who is General Zachary Taylor?
100
A term defined within Mexican culture as "the family's role of instilling in children a sense of moral, social, and personal responsibility and serves as the foundation for all other learning. It additionally refers to competence in the social world, wherin one respects the dignity and individuality of others." (p. 23)
What is educacion?
100
This type of classroom, comprised of native Spanish speakers, is designed to help them transition into an English-only curriculum.
What is ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom?
100
"Americanize the child in a controlled linguistic and cultural environment, and…train Mexicans for occupations considered open to, and appropriate for them" (96)
Who is E.D. Hirsch?
200
This treaty, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, ceded Mexican territory from Texas and California to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
This term coined by Valenzuela explains why schooling divests youth of important social and cultural resources, leaving them progressively vulnerable to academic failure. (p. 3)
What is 'subtractive schooling'?
200
This minority group is the fastest-growing major immigrant group in New York City.
Who is Mexicans? Officially numbering about 183,200 up from about 33,600 in 1990
200
"Colonization carried forward by the armies of war is vastly more costly then that carried forward by the armies of peace, whose outpost and garrison are the public schools of the advancing nation" (100)
Who is John Dewey?
300
This law by President Wilson in 1917 obligated Puerto Rican Americans to serve in the U.S. military while denying them the right to vote in national elections.
What is the Jones Act?
300
Surprisingly, one of Valenzuela's major findings was that this group shows higher academic achievement and view school more positively due to their obedient attitudes and their 'dual frame of reference'. (p. 13-14)
Immigrant Mexican Youth
300
This area of New York has the highest population of Hispanic students.
What is Bronx and Queens http://www.weact.org/Portals/7/Map%2020.pdf
300
This author argues that "task of academic achievement for African Americans in the context of school in the United States is distinctive."
Who is Theresa Perry?
400
These two territories were formerly Mexican, but annexed by the United States in 1845-46
What are Texas and California?
400
This theory addresses the need for pedagogy to follow from and flow through relationships cultivated between teacher and student. (p. 21)
What is caring theory?
400
This act was recently reintroduce to the Senate in May 2011, the bill addresses the tragedy of young people who grew up in the United States and have graduated from U.S high schools, but whose future is circumscribed by our current immigration laws.
What is the Dream Act?
400
This author proposed the 'problem-posing' model in order to transform the student teacher relationship and create a reciprocal bond.
Who is Paulo Freire?
500
This group or Puerto Rican teachers organized in 1912 to campaign to resume teaching in Spanish in schools.
What is the Teachers Association?
500
This concept is based on the assumption that assimilation is a non-neutral process and that its widespread application negatively impacts the economic and political integration of minorities.
What is the concept of 'subtractive assimilation'?
500
This group, according to the Mexican Educational foundation of New York, has the highest drop out rate in New York City.
What is Mexican-Americans? Mexican-Americans have a 47 percent drop out rate Puerto Ricans have a 22 percent drop out rate African-Americans have a 18 percent drop out rate Caucasians have a 7 percent drop out rate
500
"Native American and Puerto Rican Americans attended schools where the curriculum and textbooks reflected the culture of the dominant white culture of the United States" (107)
Who is Lisa Delpit?
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