This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary range of mentoring advice that speaks directly to the doctoral student. Each chapter addresses a professional or personal component of the doctoral process that represents how these exceptional faculty best mentor their doctoral students. Faculty contributions exemplify diverse perspectives of mentoring: (a) Some faculty are direct and forthright, pointing the mentee toward his/her destination; (b) some faculty share personal experiences-offering mentoring advice from the perspective of someone who traveled a similar path; and (c) some faculty structure a dialogue between the faculty as mentor and you as the doctoral student. In all cases, they open possibilities for achieving success in doctoral studies. Students discover clues to follow during their doctoral journey. Whether the student is just beginning to think about entering a doctoral program, presently taking course studies, under stress, and doesn't know what the future offers, this is an ideal book because it maps the entire doctoral process.

Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how education is successfully working for Latino students.

Los Movimientos sociales ocurridos en Chile desde la "Revolucion de los pinguinos 2006" y potenciados en el "Movimiento estudiantil 2011," instauran una fuerte critica al sistema educacional chileno y su configuracion. Pero, cual sera la raiz de tales criticas. Una de las primeras respuestas a esta interrogante surge a traves del vinculo entre el sistema educativo y el sistema economico neoliberal implementado durante la Dictadura Militar de 1973, que utiliza la educacion en pos del desarrollismo economico. En el presente libro, se expondra a traves de diversos aspectos teoricos de la realidad economico-politico-social del pais, como el sistema educativo es consecuencia del modelo economico, revelando sus consecuencias en la reconfiguracion de la sociedad chilena, no solo en el area educativa sino, en lo social, readecuando los estratos sociales y tomando la familia como pieza fundamental en este entramado social- economico. Dirigido a academicos y publico en general interesados en materias sociales, economicas y politicas de gran controversia, que invitan al lector a una investigacion profunda sobre la genesis de las problematicas sociales que movilizan a todo un pais."