Building Back More Inequality: No Free Community College While Enrollment Dips In The Pandemic
By Irene Sanchez This is hardly a surprise, but the pandemic has impacted many students at all levels of education,
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Most New Teachers Leave Within 5 Years
This is my 5th year of teaching high school. Although I’ve also taught and currently teach college, teaching high school
Why High School Graduation Remains an Important Achievement for Chicanos/Latinos
The same year my son began kindergarten was the same year I started teaching high school. After completing a Ph.D. in Education in 2015, instead of working in higher education as I anticipated, I was called to teach Ethnic Studies in high school classrooms to be in schools that sometimes feel like the “Mexican Schools” I teach about from the 1940s. As Teaching Tolerance has documented in these Mexican Schools, “Many Anglo educators did not expect, or encourage, Chicano students to advance beyond the eighth grade. Instead, the curriculum at the Mexican schools was designed, as one district superintendent put it, “to help these children take their place in society.”
When Ethnic Studies is Under Attack…
When Ethnic Studies is Under Attack… By Irene Sanchez Xicana Ph.D. When Ethnic Studies is under attack, you remember we’ve
The Myth of Meritocracy
The Myth of Meritocracy By Irene Sanchez The scandal Operation Varsity Blues has many talking about corruption in higher education
3 P’s of Graduate School Applications
3 P’s of Graduate School Applications By: Xicana Ph.D. I know I have a lot of my critiques of the
Stop reinforcing the status quo inside or outside academia
Stop reinforcing the status quo inside or outside academia By Xicana Ph.D. The ivory tower as a whole doesn’t uplift
The Importance of “Staying Rooted” in These Times
The Importance of “Staying Rooted” in These Times By Irene Sanchez (Xicana Ph.D.) Remembering who I am has meant for
Xicana Ph.D. 