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Hot Type: Digitizing Utah’S Historical Newspapers, Jeremy Myntti, Tina Kirkham
Hot Type: Digitizing Utah’S Historical Newspapers, Jeremy Myntti, Tina Kirkham
Faculty Publications
1.History of Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) Program
2.Tour of UDN
3.How can YOU help build UDN?
4.Future of UDN
5.UDN for Family History
Public Education For Democracy: Teaching Immigrant And Bilingual Children As Equals, Luis E. Poza, Sheila M. Shannon
Public Education For Democracy: Teaching Immigrant And Bilingual Children As Equals, Luis E. Poza, Sheila M. Shannon
Faculty Publications
This theoretical essay offers a genealogical analysis (Foucault, 1975) that problematizes the idea of “public” with respect to schooling immigrant and bilingual students. “Public” has been reconfigured in ways that privilege hegemonic whiteness, resulting in policies and practices such as standardized testing, for example, that primarily evaluate, sort, and penalize (Foucault, 1975) schools serving these students. We contend that testing’s pernicious impacts stem from a raciolinguistic project of American identity (Flores & Rosa, 2015). Educators, adapting to the tests (Freire, 1974), cement linguistic and racial hierarchies. Referencing classrooms from our teaching and empirical work, we argue for teacher education that …