Engaging the Hispanic Learner: Ten Strategies for Using Culture to Increase Achievement - Hardcover

by Michele Wages (Author)

In this book, Dr. Wages helps education take an enormous step forward in addressing this increasingly complex issue. The research she cites is almost shockingly compelling. After reading this book there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the issue is real, the issue is important, and that successfully dealing with it--soon--is critical.

Author Biography

Dr. Michele Wages is an instructional specialist serving on title one campuses in the DFW area since 1993, including a bilingual campus with an eighty-six percent Hispanic student enrollment and a free and reduced lunch demographic of ninety-six percent. During her twenty-four-year career, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts facilitator and has provided staff development training for teachers.