In these afflicted times, it has become difficult to acquisition solutions to the problems which are afflictive our society. One of the a lot of constant problems is the admeasurement of dropouts from our accessible top schools. The accumulation which is at the beginning of this educational abortion is Mexican-Americans. However, one columnist believes he has begin the acknowledgment to this problem: Author and drillmaster Ernesto Caravantes, M.S., postulates that the acumen for Latino educational abortion in the United States is the Latino ability itself.
Glendale, California -- This year, accompany the growing amount of universities and borough groups which accept arrive the abolitionist columnist and educator, Ernesto Caravantes, M.S., to allege above the country. In his two books, Clipping Their Own Wings, and The Mexican-American Mind, Mr. Caravantes explores the absolute acumen Latinos are backward abaft added aboriginal groups in educational accomplishment and durably declares Latinos accountable for their own blah performance. He contends that by adhering to assertive cultural ethics that do not abode apprenticeship at the top of their antecedence lists, accompanying with a adamant attrition to apprentice English, or to assimilate, Latinos are preventing themselves from accomplishing any absolute apple advance or active out the American Dream. These books, in the easily of the appropriate humans in both educational and aldermanic circles, can accomplish a above addition to calling absorption to the absolute and abandoned botheration of educational abundance and aloofness in the Hispanic culture.
"Clipping Their Own Wings is a have to apprehend for anyone who seeks a bigger compassionate of the ability affray amid Latinos and Anglo Americans. It provides a blueprint for Latinos to accomplish in the U.S. and destroys some belief alternating the way. Ernesto Caravantes has performed a abundant accessible service." -Tom Hennessy, Long Beach Press-Telegram
The author's newest book, The Mexican-American Mind, contains a accumulating of arguable essays in which the columnist shows the close apparatus and chicane of the a lot of abandoned aboriginal accumulation in American society. From claimed relationships to modes of dress, anniversary affiliate presents a altered "slice of life" of Mexican-Americans.
If you accept not already purchased his aboriginal book, Clipping Their Own Wings, this is the absolute befalling to accustom yourself with the awful arguable affair that Caravantes so agreeably writes about -- how the Latino ability undervalues education.
Copy this hotlink to watch the columnist accepting interviewed on NBC Channel 4 by Conan Nolan: http://www.youtube.com/ErnestoCaravantes
Be abiding to analysis out the newly-updated website for Ernesto Caravantes: http://www.ErnestoCaravantes.com
Thank you for your connected support, Ernesto Caravantes, M.S. (562) 522-4691.
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