The Shoulders We Stand on - 9780826360182

The Shoulders We Stand onA History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico\nAuthor(s): Rebecca Blum Martnez, Mary Jean Habermann Lpez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of New Mexico Press, United States\nImprint: University of New Mexico Press\nISBN-13: 9780826360182, 978-0826360182\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2021 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association\n\nThe Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Din, and Pueblo languages. The book focuses on the formal establishment of bilingual education infrastructure and looks at the range of contemporary challenges facing the educational environment today. The book's contributors highlight particular actions, initiatives, and people that have made significant impacts on bilingual education in New Mexico, and they place New Mexico's experience in context with other states' responses to bilingual education. The book also includes an excellent timeline .