Ruben Donato
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruben Donato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruben |
| FAMILY NAME | Donato |
| SIGNATURE | DONATO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mexican American Educational History: A Moment of Recognition
Mexican American educational history has become a vibrant field of study since the late 1980s. In the last seven years, however, it is notable that this research has inspired community-based efforts to preserve and publicly commemorate challenges to unequal education. In this commentary, we discuss the archival recovery of the Francisco Maestas et al. v. George Shone et al. case in Alamosa, Colorado; the excavation of El Colegio Altamirano in Heb…
In These Towns, Mexicans Are Classified as Negroes”: The Politics of Unofficial Segregation in the Kansas Public Schools, 1915–1935
This article examines the emergence of Mexican American school segregation from 1915 to 1935 in Kansas, the state that gave rise to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Even though Mexicans were not referenced in Kansas’s school segregation laws, they were seen and treated as a racially distinct group. White parents and civic organizations pushed school officials to establish separate facilities for Mexican children. We argue that the contradicto…
Unmasking the school re-zoning process: Race and class in a Northern Colorado community
Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960
Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960
(2003). Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960. Journal of Latinos and Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 69-88
New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects
This article, based on a Spencer Foundation sponsored conference on new directions in the history of education, examines the dilemma of audience and voice. It connects the "golden era" of American educational historiography to the education reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, and then discusses recent developments in the areas of people of color, history and policy, higher education, and a gender-based history. It suggests ways history might be conne…
The other struggle for equal schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights era
Examining the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato challenges conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims, accepting their educational fates. He looks at how Mexican American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in sch…
Mexican Americans in middle schools: The illusion of educational reform
T AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL has been the subject of intense criticism over the past decade and a half. Federal and state policymakers charged that misguided educational reformers allowed standards to slip, student performance to decline, and the overall quality of the high school to deteriorate. Deemed as mediocre, in a state of crisis, and ill-equipped to compete in a global economy, critics declared that the high school curriculum was fragmented, un…
Promoting the Success of Latino Language-Minority Students: An Exploratory Study of Six High Schools
For the growing numbers of Latino students in U. S. secondary schools, academic success has been elusive. Poor attendance records, low test scores, high drop-out rates, and small numbers going on to college all bear witness to schools' failure to meet their needs. But some secondary schools are providing an environment in which language-minority students and others can achieve academic success. In this article Tamara Lucas, Rosemary Henze, and Ru…
Children of the harvest: The schooling of dust bowl and Mexican migrants during the depression era
(1990). Children of the harvest: The schooling of dust bowl and Mexican migrants during the depression era. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 67, A Look at Rural Education in the United States, pp. 29-45
The other struggle for equal schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights era
Examining the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato challenges conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims, accepting their educational fates. He looks at how Mexican American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in sch…
New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects
This article, based on a Spencer Foundation sponsored conference on new directions in the history of education, examines the dilemma of audience and voice. It connects the "golden era" of American educational historiography to the education reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, and then discusses recent developments in the areas of people of color, history and policy, higher education, and a gender-based history. It suggests ways history might be conne…
Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960
(2003). Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960. Journal of Latinos and Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 69-88
Unmasking the school re-zoning process: Race and class in a Northern Colorado community
Mexican Americans in middle schools: The illusion of educational reform
T AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL has been the subject of intense criticism over the past decade and a half. Federal and state policymakers charged that misguided educational reformers allowed standards to slip, student performance to decline, and the overall quality of the high school to deteriorate. Deemed as mediocre, in a state of crisis, and ill-equipped to compete in a global economy, critics declared that the high school curriculum was fragmented, un…
In These Towns, Mexicans Are Classified as Negroes”: The Politics of Unofficial Segregation in the Kansas Public Schools, 1915–1935
This article examines the emergence of Mexican American school segregation from 1915 to 1935 in Kansas, the state that gave rise to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Even though Mexicans were not referenced in Kansas’s school segregation laws, they were seen and treated as a racially distinct group. White parents and civic organizations pushed school officials to establish separate facilities for Mexican children. We argue that the contradicto…
Children of the harvest: The schooling of dust bowl and Mexican migrants during the depression era
(1990). Children of the harvest: The schooling of dust bowl and Mexican migrants during the depression era. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 67, A Look at Rural Education in the United States, pp. 29-45
Promoting the Success of Latino Language-Minority Students: An Exploratory Study of Six High Schools
For the growing numbers of Latino students in U. S. secondary schools, academic success has been elusive. Poor attendance records, low test scores, high drop-out rates, and small numbers going on to college all bear witness to schools' failure to meet their needs. But some secondary schools are providing an environment in which language-minority students and others can achieve academic success. In this article Tamara Lucas, Rosemary Henze, and Ru…
Children of the harvest: The schooling of dust bowl and Mexican migrants during the depression era
(1990). Children of the harvest: The schooling of dust bowl and Mexican migrants during the depression era. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 67, A Look at Rural Education in the United States, pp. 29-45
Mexican Americans in middle schools: The illusion of educational reform
T AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL has been the subject of intense criticism over the past decade and a half. Federal and state policymakers charged that misguided educational reformers allowed standards to slip, student performance to decline, and the overall quality of the high school to deteriorate. Deemed as mediocre, in a state of crisis, and ill-equipped to compete in a global economy, critics declared that the high school curriculum was fragmented, un…
The other struggle for equal schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights era
Examining the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato challenges conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims, accepting their educational fates. He looks at how Mexican American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in sch…
New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects
This article, based on a Spencer Foundation sponsored conference on new directions in the history of education, examines the dilemma of audience and voice. It connects the "golden era" of American educational historiography to the education reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, and then discusses recent developments in the areas of people of color, history and policy, higher education, and a gender-based history. It suggests ways history might be conne…
Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960
(2003). Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960. Journal of Latinos and Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 69-88
Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960
Unmasking the school re-zoning process: Race and class in a Northern Colorado community
In These Towns, Mexicans Are Classified as Negroes”: The Politics of Unofficial Segregation in the Kansas Public Schools, 1915–1935
This article examines the emergence of Mexican American school segregation from 1915 to 1935 in Kansas, the state that gave rise to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Even though Mexicans were not referenced in Kansas’s school segregation laws, they were seen and treated as a racially distinct group. White parents and civic organizations pushed school officials to establish separate facilities for Mexican children. We argue that the contradicto…
Mexican American Educational History: A Moment of Recognition
Mexican American educational history has become a vibrant field of study since the late 1980s. In the last seven years, however, it is notable that this research has inspired community-based efforts to preserve and publicly commemorate challenges to unequal education. In this commentary, we discuss the archival recovery of the Francisco Maestas et al. v. George Shone et al. case in Alamosa, Colorado; the excavation of El Colegio Altamirano in Heb…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Geography (3 works)