keywords
- History of American Education, Latino Education in the American Southwest
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Donato, Ruben Professor and Bob & Judy Charles Endowed Chair in Education
Positions
- Professor, School of Education
- Endowed Chair, School of Education
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- Latino Education in 20th Century America: A Brief History. 27-62. 2010
- Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities. 70-113. 2003
- No One Here to Put Us Down: Hispano Education in a Southern Colorado community, 1920-1964 2000
- Segregation, desegregation, and integration of Chicano students: Problems and Prospects. 27-63. 1991
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journal article
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Mexican-American resistance to school segregation.
Phi Delta Kappan.
39-42.
2019
- The Braceros: Mexican Workers in the Jim Crow South, 1949–1951. Social Education. 51-57. 2019
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“Porque tenían sangre de ‘NEGROS’”: The Exclusion of Mexican Children from a Louisiana School, 1915-1916.
125-125.
2017
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“In These Towns, Mexicans Are Classified as Negroes”.
American Educational Research Journal.
53S-74S.
2017
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Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al.: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912-1914.
Journal of Latinos and Education.
3-17.
2017
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Legally White, Socially 'Mexican": The Politics of De Jure and De Facto School Segregation in the American Southwest.
Harvard Educational Review.
202-225.
2012
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Unmasking the school re-zoning process: Race and class in a Northern Colorado community.
Latino Studies.
222-249.
2009
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Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960.
Journal of Latinos and Education.
69-88.
2003
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New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects.
Educational Researcher.
4-15.
2000
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Hispano education and the implications of autonomy: Four school systems in southern Colorado, 1920-1963.
Harvard Educational Review.
117-149.
1999
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The irony of year-round schools: Mexican migrant resistance in a California community during the civil rights era.
Educational Administration Quarterly.
181-208.
1996
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Mexican Americans in middle schools: The illusion of educational reform.
Theory into Practice.
173-182.
1994
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Language Segregation in Desegregated Schools.
Equity and Excellence in Education.
94-99.
1991
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Mexican-American resistance to school segregation.
Phi Delta Kappan.
39-42.
2019
Teaching
courses taught
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EDUC 2125 - History of American Public Education
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Provides an overview of the history of American education by exploring major reforms efforts from the common school movement to Nation at Risk. Examines what intellectuals were thinking about public schools and what ordinary people experienced in them. Assesses how differences in race/ethnicity, class, gender, and power shaped public schools. -
EDUC 3013 - School and Society
Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Spring 2019
Introduces students - both future teachers and those simply interested in education - to pressing issues surrounding education within the United States. The course reveals the complex relationship between schools and the larger society of which they are a part. Examines issues of diversity and equity from different disciplinary lenses, including history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. -
EDUC 5085 - History of American Education
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020
Highlights social and intellectual history perspectives of American educational history, major reform movements from the 19th century to Dewey, and assessment of how differences of race, class, ethnicity, religion, power, and gender affected American education. -
EDUC 8220 - Introduction to Educational Research and Policy
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
Introduces conceptual and empirical issues and controversies in educational research and policy. Complements other EDUC doctoral courses in quantitative and qualitative methodology.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Stanford University 1987
- M.A., Stanford University 1985
- B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz 1979
awards and honors
International Activities
global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)
- Mexico Country