Spotlight

Dr. Lesley Bartlett, Teachers College, Columbia University to speak on
Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Youth in the Heights

Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times, by Dr. Lesley Bartlett and Ofelia García, documents the unusually successful efforts of one New York City high school to educate Dominican immigrant youth, at a time when Latino immigrants constitute a growing and vulnerable population in the nation's secondary schools. Based on four and a half years of qualitative research, the book examines the schooling of teens in the Dominican Republic, the social and linguistic challenges the immigrant teens face in Washington Heights, and how Gregorio Luperon High School works with the community to respond to those challenges. The staff at Luperon see their students as emergent bilinguals and adhere to a culturally and linguistically additive approach. The book describes the dynamic bilingual pedagogical approach adopted within the school to help students develop academic Spanish and English. Focusing on the lives of twenty immigrant youth, Bartlett and Garcia also show that, although the school achieves high completion rates, the graduating students nevertheless face difficult postsecondary educational and work environments that too often consign them to the ranks of the working poor.

Sponsored by the Graduate School of Education and hosted by the Education Psychology Library.

Please join us Thursday, November 15, 2012, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. in the UCB Education Psychology Library, 2600 Tolman Hall.

Free and open to the public.