• Introduction: A Call to Action
1. The Crisis and the Context
2. On Being Latino or Latina in America
3. American Schools and the Latino Student Experience
4. Is Language the Problem?
5. Inside the Lives of Puente Students
6. Beating the Odds and Going to College
7. The Costs and Effectiveness of Intervention
8. Rescatando Sueños—Rescuing Dreams
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Index

photo of Patricia Gándara (top) and Frances Contreras (bottom)

Patricia Gándara is Professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Frances Contreras is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Washington.