Product Description: This new edition of the best-selling Chicano School Failure and Success, has been updated and expanded to provide state-of-the-art coverage of the Chicano school experience. The contributors include experts in the fields of anthropology, psychology, educational history and policy, special education, and child and family studies, reflecting the wide and complex range of issues affecting Chicano school students...read more

Product Description: Deficit thinking refers to the notion that students, particularly low income minority students, fail in school because they and their families experience deficiencies that obstruct the leaning process (e.g. limited intelligence, lack of motivation, inadequate home socialization)...read more

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.