A live broadcast in English from a community forum in Los Angeles on the crisis in the education of Latino students. A renowned scholar says that Latinos, the fastest-growing group, is the most poorly educated and warns of a looming social disaster. Intellectual leaders of the national group known as Los Macarturos respond to the call to action. The forum airs in simulcast with KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and is part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Graduate – Let’s Make it Happen! Initiative.
Guests: Dr. Patricia Gándara, Author of the Book “The Latino Education Crisis”; Joan Abrahamson, San Francisco, CA; Luis Alfaro, Los Angeles, CA; Ruth Behar, Ann Arbor, MI; Guillermo Gómez-Peña, San Francisco, CA; Rueben Martínez, Santa Ana, CA; Amalia Mesa‐Bains, Salinas, CA; Hugo Morales, Fresno, CA; Francisco Núñez, New York City; Benjamin “Pepón” Osorio, New York City; María Varela, Albuquerque, NM; Camilo J. Vergara, New York City.
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