Full Description
This is the tale of the origin, emergence, and transformation of an unorthodox binational partnership, the Georgia Project, that brought a Mexican university to aid a Georgia school district that suddenly found itself hosting thousands of Latino newcomers. It is also the tale of educational leaders evolving understandings of what they needed to do.
This book tells the particular story of the Georgia Project, a partnership initiated between leading citizens, a school district, and a Mexican university to help Dalton, Georgia, the Carpet Capital of the World as it suddenly found itself host to the first majority Latino school district in Georgia. The book focuses on the evolving understandings of six early leders of this initiative and their resultant actions. It tries to carefully situate these particular actors within the larger swirl of conflicting scripts and public sphere messages regarding who Latino newcomers are, what they want and merited, and how the community should respond.
Contents
Dedication and Acknowledgments Introduction Negotiating a New Demography: Schooling and the "Latinization" of North Georgia The Ethnography of Educational Policy Places, Scripts, and People: The Particularities of People and Settings 125 Years of Race, Class, and Corporate Paternalism in Dalton Of Immigration Scripts and the Conceptualization of Latino Newcomers The Georgia Projects Dalton Founders Mexican University Partners A Novel Binational Partnership: From Launch to Consolidation The Complaints of a "Parapro," Action, and One School Pointing the Way Designing a Partnership: Three Meetings, a Grant Proposal, and a Challenge Visiting Instructors: Experts or Parapros? Summer Training in Mexico and Its Challenge to Traditional Governance We Want Bilingual Education Except We Don't The Universidad Also Does What It Wants Something Gained and Something Lost Ephemeral Opportunity or Inclusive New Order The Politics of Latino Education Policy: Implications of the Georgia Project Epilogue
