My research focuses on my quest to understand my privileged position in the process of border societies. Recent research looks into science fairs and standardized testing. Who benefits and who loses? What are the impacts on the educational programs in our community? Emerging research explores the effects of highly interactive inquiry science curricula on concept and vocabulary development in schools where children are learning English as their second language. Particularly exciting is the ongoing investigation into the relationship between the maquiladora industry and the schools built in the colonias surrounding Cd. Juárez where the maquiladora workers are living.
Books: border studies, globalization in education, critical feminist ethnography
Anay's Will to Learn: A Woman's Education in the Shadow of the Maquiladora (2013)
The opening of free trade agreements in the 1980s caused major economic changes in Mexico...
The Highly Questionable "Highly Qualified" Label, Action in Teacher Education (2004)
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is instrumental in the national movement toward...
High Stakes Testing and Teacher Certification
The Highly Questionable "Highly Qualified" Label, Action in Teacher Education (2004)
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is instrumental in the national movement toward...
high-stakes testing, Texas testing, testing movement, testing resistance, minority-student testing,
Standardized or sterilized? Divergent perspectives on the effects of high-stakes testing in West Texas, Leaving Children Behind: Why Texas-Style Accountability Fails Latino Youth (2004)
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Plastics in the environment: a jigsaw learning activity, Science Scope (2009)
In this lesson, a ready-to-teach cooperative reading activity, students learn about the effects of plastics...