Latinos and Education
New book release on Latinos and education
Welcome
This Website inaugurates two books about Latinos and education by Abdín Noboa-Ríos, Ph.D., as he reflects on the state of education and the nation. It reflects work he has been assessing regarding state-of-the-art issues on education these impact Hispanic/Latino communities nationwide and in the island of Puerto Rico.
As practitioner and researcher, Dr. Noboa’s efforts have spanned the Hispanic community from coast to coast and internationally. His views expand beyond personal experience, as he also reflects wisdom gained from interviews with America’s who’s who and through related work with community organizations. In education, research for his second book (2020) included an impressive array of 112 interviews with scholars and practitioners across the country and in the island.
As practitioner and researcher, Dr. Noboa’s efforts have spanned the Hispanic community from coast to coast and internationally. His views expand beyond personal experience, as he also reflects wisdom gained from interviews with America’s who’s who and through related work with community organizations. In education, research for his second book (2020) included an impressive array of 112 interviews with scholars and practitioners across the country and in the island.
Book One - Available Now
This first book lays the groundwork on the “story” of Latinos in education from the beginning in the Americas. It focuses thoroughly on the Latino saga in the U.S., where much of this information has gone unrecognized in history.
The book is an easily readable yet comprehensive review of this history, with vignettes about previously unknown information. While details of the chronology are astounding, it is also highly welcoming, for it is important for the public to understand the Latino story as it is also important for Hispanics to learn about their legacy and strongly embrace it.
Everyone should be acquainted and conversant with this poorly understood past. While spanning several centuries, the book uncovers much of the past that persists with remnants in the present. As the author reflects, the past is truly not gone. Left unchanged, it is a prologue to the future. The book was released September 2019.
The book is an easily readable yet comprehensive review of this history, with vignettes about previously unknown information. While details of the chronology are astounding, it is also highly welcoming, for it is important for the public to understand the Latino story as it is also important for Hispanics to learn about their legacy and strongly embrace it.
Everyone should be acquainted and conversant with this poorly understood past. While spanning several centuries, the book uncovers much of the past that persists with remnants in the present. As the author reflects, the past is truly not gone. Left unchanged, it is a prologue to the future. The book was released September 2019.
*NEW* Book Two – Also Now Available
Piggybacking on the rich history of Latinos and education from book two, the question of what this means for the 21st century is paramount. As Latinos continue to lag greatly behind White students, and also relative to other racial minorities by most indicators, the question is why. It is important to understand why academic achievement has not advanced after multiple decades as expected from previous immigrants.
Not only does the author tackle this question, but also addresses ten specific challenges that confront Latino education this decade. For each challenge, he provides valid options to current disparities, with supportive evidence from current practice, going beyond theory and traditional thinking. Too much misinformation is bandied about that is challenged by the author, as he promotes a more realistic view of current disparities and concomitant promises.
The book ends by calling for action, promoting the fact that this is not a Latino problem, but an American challenge. It admonishes that with the exponential growth of Latinos, indifference to the issues of education for Latinos is dangerous, as they highly link to America’s future. Unattended, the nation faces a perfect storm, inevitably affecting the very fabric of the nation whose future is linked to Latinos that now represent nearly 1-in-3 births nationwide.
Not only does the author tackle this question, but also addresses ten specific challenges that confront Latino education this decade. For each challenge, he provides valid options to current disparities, with supportive evidence from current practice, going beyond theory and traditional thinking. Too much misinformation is bandied about that is challenged by the author, as he promotes a more realistic view of current disparities and concomitant promises.
The book ends by calling for action, promoting the fact that this is not a Latino problem, but an American challenge. It admonishes that with the exponential growth of Latinos, indifference to the issues of education for Latinos is dangerous, as they highly link to America’s future. Unattended, the nation faces a perfect storm, inevitably affecting the very fabric of the nation whose future is linked to Latinos that now represent nearly 1-in-3 births nationwide.