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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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.”
The Myth of Meritocracy
The Myth of Meritocracy By Irene Sanchez The scandal Operation Varsity Blues has many talking about corruption in higher education
Why We Still Need Chicano/Latino Studies
Why we still need Chicanx/Latinx Studies By Irene Sanchez A student last year in my Latinx Studies class wrote, “If
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
From Community College to Ph.D., It Doesn’t Matter How Long it Takes You
It doesn’t matter how long it takes you. I told this to my students recently. I often give extra words
Surviving while in graduate school and beyond
Surviving while in graduate school and beyond By: Xicana Ph.D. “…and when we speak we are afraid our words will
Introduction
Hello, after a year recovering from completing my Ph.D., I decided to come back to and update this blog on a
Xicana Ph.D. 