Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. is Professor of Education at California State University, San Bernardino. He is the founding Editor–in–Chief of the Journal of Latinos and Education (JLE), and of the Handbook of Latinos and Education (HLE). Additionally, he is the founder of the National Latino Education Network (NLEN), and Latino Education & Advocacy Days (LEAD), the objective of which is to promote a broad–based awareness of the crisis in Latino education and to enhance the intellectual, cultural, and personal development of our community's educators, administrators, leaders, and students.

‘Carefully curated, timely and thorough, Critical Readings on Latinos is Education is an important contribution to our understandings of the complex and urgent issues facing Latinos and Education. The individual contributions, by leading scholars in their respective fields, make for a book every scholar of education, policy maker, student and, indeed every concerned citizen, should read with gusto and to much profit.’ —Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is the UCLA Wasserman Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. His books include Latinos: Remaking America and the forthcoming Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Facing the world Crisis ‘In Critical Readings on Latinos and Education a collage of important contributions in theory, research and practice are made available by summarizing significant advances in a more informed understanding of U.S. Latino education reflecting how the knowledge base has evolved over the last two decades. This contribution is an important reference for all educators.’—Eugene E. Garcia, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

• Biographical SketchEl Futuro es Nuestro: From the Editor's DeskCreditsSECTION ITasks1 "Mexican Americans Don’t Value Education!"—On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and DebunkingRICHARD R. VALENCIA AND MARY S. BLACK 2 Funds of Knowledge: An Approach to Studying Latina(o) Students’ Transition to CollegeCECILIA RIOS-AGUILAR AND JUDY MARQUEZ KIYAMA 3 All for Our Children: Migrant Families and Parent Participation in an Alternative Education ProgramPABLO JASIS AND DOUGLAS MARRIOTT 4 Quantitative Intersectionality: A Critical Race Analysis of the Chicana/o Educational PipelineALEJANDRO COVARRUBIAS 5 Challenges Facing Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the First Decade of the 21st CenturyALFREDO G. DE LOS SANTOS JR. AND KARINA MICHELLE CUAMEA5 Nuestro Camino: A Review of Literature Surrounding the Latino Teacher PipelineKELLY M. OCASIOSECTION IIThemes7 Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al.: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912–1914RUBEN DONATO, GONZALO GUZMÁN, AND JARROD HANSON8 Latino English Language Learners: Bridging Achievement and Cultural Gaps Between Schools and FamiliesMARY ELLEN GOOD, SOPHIA MASEWICZ, AND LINDA VOGEL 9 Understanding Latina/o School Pushout: Experiences of Students Who Left School Before GraduatingNORA LUNA AND ANITA TIJERINA REVILLA10 Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios of Schooling and SurvivalWANDA ALARCÓN, CINDY CRUZ, LINDA GUARDIA JACKSON, LINDA PRIETO, AND SANDRA RODRIGUEZ-ARROYO11 The Value of Education and Educación: Nurturing Mexican American Children’s Educational Aspirations to the DoctorateMICHELLE M. ESPINO12 Mapping and Recontextualizing the Evolution of the Term Latinx: An Environmental Scanning in Higher EducationCRISTOBAL SALINAS JR. AND ADELE LOZANOSECTION IIISolutions13 Abuelita Epistemologies: Counteracting Subtractive Schools in American EducationSANDRA M. GONZALES14 Sustaining a Dual Language Immersion Program: Features of SuccessILIANA ALANÍS AND MARIELA A. RODRÍGUEZ15 Beginning With El Barrio: Learning From Exemplary Teachers of Latino StudentsJASON G. IRIZARRY AND JOHN RAIBLE16 The Relationship Between a College Preparation Program and At-Risk Students’ College ReadinessJENNIFER T. CATES AND SCOTT E. SCHAEFLE17 Latina/o Parent Organizing for Educational Justice: An Ethnographic Account of Community Building and Radical HealingKYSA NYGREEN18 Dream Big: Exploring Empowering Processes of DREAM Act Advocacy in a Focal StateBRAD FORENZA AND CAROLINA MENDONCA19 Multiple Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Identities in Action: From Marginality to a New Cultural Capital in Modern SocietyHENRY T. TRUEBAIndex