In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides students and educators alike with an indispensable overview of the relationship between Mexican Americans and the U.S. public schooling system. She examines controversial issues, such as standardized testing, segregation, and curriculum tracking, as well as a historical analysis of the barriers that Mexican American students have and continue to regularly face.

The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive—indeed revolutionary—program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it.