Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their educational aspirations and access to higher education. It explores how the individual and collective influence of the home, school and policy shape the college decision-making process. This unique collection of original scholarly articles offers critical insight on educational pathways that will help families, educators and policy makers intervene in ways that foster and sustain college access and participation for Latino students. It considers destination preferences and enrollment selections, elementary and secondary school experiences, and intervention programs that shed light on how practitioners can promote participation and retention. This multi-conceptual, multi-methodological volume offers directions for future research, programming and policy in Latino education.

Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their educational aspirations and access to higher education. It explores how the individual and collective influence of the home, school and policy shape the college decision-making process. This unique collection of original scholarly articles offers critical insight on educational pathways that will help families, educators and policy makers intervene in ways that foster and sustain college access and participation for Latino students. It considers destination preferences and enrollment selections, elementary and secondary school experiences, and intervention programs that shed light on how practitioners can promote participation and retention. This multi-conceptual, multi-methodological volume offers directions for future research, programming and policy in Latino education.

Grounded in empirical research, this timely volume examines the challenges to academic success that migrant farmworker students face in the U.S. Providing an original framework for academic success among migrant farmworker students and applying a diverse range of methodological approaches, chapter authors address a range of topics, including English Language Learner development; support for educators who work with migrant farmworker students; promotion of migrant family involvement; and college access. This book provides pragmatic strategies and interventions and considers practical and policy implications to increase migrant student academic achievement and support migrant farmworker students and families.

Grounded in empirical research, this timely volume examines the challenges to academic success that migrant farmworker students face in the U.S. Providing an original framework for academic success among migrant farmworker students and applying a diverse range of methodological approaches, chapter authors address a range of topics, including English Language Learner development; support for educators who work with migrant farmworker students; promotion of migrant family involvement; and college access. This book provides pragmatic strategies and interventions and considers practical and policy implications to increase migrant student academic achievement and support migrant farmworker students and families.

En este libro se describe la cultura corporal en Mexico durante la sociedad prehispanica. Empezaremos hablando de los dioses que regian la practica ludica y el mono como metafora de estos. Luego, la concepcion que del movimiento tenian nuestros antepasados (nahui ollin) del cuerpo y sus caracteristicas, de su estetica y parafernalia, de como fueron vistos por los invasores, el gusto por la limpieza, sus practicas de "medicina deportiva," de como el cosmos y la educacion familiar e institucional influian para hacer del hombre y la mujer rostros y corazones dignos. En seguida, diremos respecto a la alimentacion, factor basico para un buen desempeno fisico. A continuacion referiremos algunos juegos recreativos, otras practicas ludicas (la magia, los juguetes, los silbatos, los titeres, la expresion corporal y la naturaleza hecha bosques y caprichosos jardines) y los deportes (natacion, buceo, canotaje, pesca, tiro al blanco, la caza, esgrima, corredores, juego de pelota).Y finalmente, el ritmo de la danza y las instituciones educativas que tenian como tarea ensenar y mantener viva, entre muchas otras cosas, la costumbre corporal del mundo precortesiano."

El presente libro es el resultado de una investigacion financiada por el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Mexico (Conacyt), en el marco de la Convocatoria FOMIX-Veracruz 2005-11934, que surgio como una necesidad de buscar alternativas para la obtencion de proteina de buena calidad para uso acuicola, a partir de la utilizacion de Fauna de Acompanamiento de la pesqueria comercial del Camaron (FAC). En este documento, se indica de manera practica y sencilla como producir un ensilado biologico de alta calidad, mediante una fermentacion lactica y obtener un producto seco. Asi mismo, se muestran los resultados de los bioensayos en los que se sustituyo en diferentes concentraciones de harina del ensilado biologico por harina de pescado, en dietas para especies de interes acuicola comercial. Por lo que esperamos que este documento sea de utilidad para los interesados en la nutricion y alimentacion de especies acuicolas en un marco de sustentabilidad y cuidado ambiental."