Leonard Kaplan – författare

Focuses on the content, technology, and skills teachers must master to prepare students to compete in today′s global economy. Also explores the kinds of support teachers need from other educators, families, and communities in order to be more effective. The National Congress on Teacher Education focuses on ways to recruit, prepare, license, and support a teacher workforce for the information age. This book compiles the deliberations and results of the latest conference, and examines: * Changes in policy, practice, and research that will help teachers meet the needs of all students striving to reach high standards * Partnerships among educators to better acquire and utilize the resources needed to effect these changes This series of provocative discussions and responses should be required reading for teachers, administrators, and all stakeholders in the future of American education and in America′s real future: our children. Sponsored by Association for Teacher Educators

Focuses on the content, technology, and skills teachers must master to prepare students to compete in today′s global economy. Also explores the kinds of support teachers need from other educators, families, and communities in order to be more effective. The National Congress on Teacher Education focuses on ways to recruit, prepare, license, and support a teacher workforce for the information age. This book compiles the deliberations and results of the latest conference, and examines: * Changes in policy, practice, and research that will help teachers meet the needs of all students striving to reach high standards * Partnerships among educators to better acquire and utilize the resources needed to effect these changes This series of provocative discussions and responses should be required reading for teachers, administrators, and all stakeholders in the future of American education and in America′s real future: our children. Sponsored by Association for Teacher Educators

2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn the summer of 1995, El Vez, the "Mexican Elvis,"along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking show, "Diva L.A.: A Salute to L.A.'s Latinas in the Tanda Style." The performances were remarkable not only for the talent displayed, but for their blend of linguistic, musical, and cultural traditions.In Loca Motion, Michelle Habell-Pallán argues that performances like Diva L.A. play a vital role in shaping and understanding contemporary transnational social dynamics. Chicano/a and Latino/a popular culture, including spoken word, performance art, comedy, theater, and punk music aesthetics, is central to developing cultural forms and identities that reach across and beyond the Americas, from Mexico City to Vancouver to Berlin. Drawing on the lives and work of a diverse group of artists,Habell-Pallán explores new perspectives that defy both traditional forms of Latino cultural nationalism and the expectations of U.S. culture. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of identity politics and an invaluable lens from which to view the complex dynamics of race, class, gender, and sexuality.