American schools are sleepwalking into a perfect storm— rapid demographic changes, an unforgiving global economy, and continually dysfunctional schools. Gándara and Contreras delineate the . . . challenges of the 'Latino education crisis' with empirical rigor, conceptual clarity, and humane concern. This is the book that everyone who cares about the American future should read and pass on to a friend.
   --Carola & Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, authors of Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society

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.