Latinos and Education in the time of COVID-19

Enrique G. Murillo Jr., Frances Contreras, Eligio Martinez Jr., Jacqueline E. Arroyo-Romano

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040264522
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

This book focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Latino/a/e/x students, families, and communities across the educational continuum to better understand the challenges faced by them.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the gross inequities that exist for Latino students with respect to access to quality technology, highly qualified and culturally competent teachers, bilingual or multilingual information for parents, and printed materials and support for students and their parents as they move to online formats. This book documents the multifaceted impact on Latino students and their families as they attempted to navigate educational spaces. It offers important insights into interventions and responsive policy to ensure Latino students are afforded equitable solutions and educational opportunities, institutions, and systems, by focusing on the following:

(1) How are Latino students, parents, and communities responding to the demands of education
while balancing the adverse effect of COVID-19 on their families and community?

(2) How are IHEs responding to the needs of their diverse students? Are they providing broader
supports to their first-generation, low-income, or immigrant students?

(3) What role does education policy have in ensuring broader Latinx access and opportunity and
ultimately impacting a rebound strategy at the local, state, and national level?

As Latino students are more likely to be first-generation students or the children of immigrants in many states, it is critical for public education systems to provide academic infrastructure that is asset based, culturally and resource responsive, and committed to equity.

This unique publication, which first appeared as a special issue of the Journal of Latinos and Education, provides an important account of the varied experiences of Latino students at all levels across the educational continuum during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: From the Editor’s Desk
• 1 Riesgo Y Resiliencia: Exploring the Role of Parenting Stress and Self-efficacy on Young Latino Children’s Well-being and Home Learning Experiences during COVID-19
• 2 Computers Secured, Connection Still Needed: Understanding How COVID-19-related Remote Schooling Impacted Spanish-speaking Mothers of Emergent Bilinguals with Dis/abilities
• 3 Parents’ Perspectives about Special Education Needs during COVID-19: Differences between Spanish and English-Speaking Parents
• 4 “We don’t all have the privilege of having our own quiet place”: College Students in a Hispanic Serving Institution during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 5 “It Wasn’t Only the Pandemic:” A Collaborative Autoethnography of Latinx Women in Higher Education Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rapidly Shifting Immigration Contexts
• 6 Latinx Community College Students and the (In)Opportunities Brought by COVID-19 Pandemic
• 7 Transitioning during a Pandemic: Examining the Institutional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic for Latina/o/x First Year and New Transfer Students
• 8 A Critical Race Spatial Analysis of Rural Latinx Students’ College (In)Opportunities and Conscious Choices during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 9 Contextualizing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Educational Experiences and Outcomes of Latinx College Students in Texas
• 10 Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Future Generation of Latinx Physicians
• Index