Research and Funded Activities |Books | Journal Articles |Book Chapters | Other Writings


RESEARCH and FUNDED ACTIVITIES

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Principal Investigator, Language Rights for Children Coalition of Western
Massachusetts, funded by Solidago Foundation, $5,000. September 2002 – August 2003.


Annenberg Institute Senior Fellowship in Urban Education, 1998-2000.


Principal Investigator, Public Service Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts, to
sponsor a G.E.D. program at Enlace de Familias/Holyoke Family Network, in
collaboration with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, $6,000. Springfield, MA, 1998-
1999.


Community Service Learning Fellow, University of Massachusetts, to develop and teach
a community service learning course, 1995-1996.


Principal Investigator on Education Initiative, through the Gastón Institute for Latino
Public Policy and Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Spring, 1994.


Principal Investigator, Multifunctional Support Center, University of Massachusetts,
through a consortium with Brown University. Funded by Title VII, ESEA, Spring, 1991.


Research grant for project on dropouts among Puerto Ricans in the Holyoke Public
Schools, funded by the Mauricio Gastón Institute, Boston, MA., 1991 (with Manuel Frau-
Ramos).


Parent/Teacher Trainer for the Bilingual Education Service Center (BESC), University of
Massachusetts, through a consortium with Brown University. funded by Title VII,
ESEA, 1980-1983.


BOOKS
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Nieto, Sonia (2003). What Keeps Teachers Going? NY: Teachers College Press. [Download Chapter 1 in PDF]

Translation into Spanish:
Razones del Profesorado Para Seguir con Entusiasmo. Barcelona: Octaedro, 2006.

 

 

Nieto, Sonia (2002). Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (a compilation of previously published journal articles and book chapters). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Nieto, Sonia (1999). The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities.
New York: Teachers College Press. A 1999 American Educational Studies Association
Critics’ Choice Selection.

 

 

Reprints
Chapter 6, in Patricia Richard-Amato (2002), Making it Happen: From Interactive to
Participatory Language Teaching, 3rd ed, New York: Addison-Wesley/Longman.
Excerpts from Chapter 7, National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform,
V. 3, n. 2 (Feb 2002).
Available at http://www.goodschools.gwu.edu/pubs/book/feb02.html

 

Nieto, Sonia (5th ed, 2008; 4th ed. 2004; 3rd ed., 2000; 2ne ed., 1996, 1st ed., 1992). Affirming
Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, New York: Allyn & Bacon
Publishers, 4th & 5th eds.; Longman Publishers, 1st through 3rd eds.).
 

Reprints
Chapter 4, in Alan S. Canestrari & Bruce A. Marlowe, eds., Educational Foundations:
An Anthology of Critical Readings, Sage Publications, 2004, pp. 44-63.


Excerpt from Introduction, in James W. Fraser (2001). The School in the United
States: A Documentary History (pp. 332-336), McGraw-Hill.


Chapter 9, in Jana Noel (Ed.) (2000), Sources: Notable Selections in Multicultural
Education (pp. 299-307), Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.


Excerpts from Chapters 9 & 10, in Ira Shor & Caroline Pari (Eds.) (1999). Education
is Politics: Critical Teaching Across Differences, K-12 (pp. 1-32.). Heinemann
Publishers.


Chapter 8: in Raising Standards: Journal of the Rochester Teachers Association, 1 (1),
Spring/Summer 1993, 39-51.


Chapter 6: in H. Svi Shapiro and David E. Purpel (Eds.) (1992). Critical Social Issues
in American Education: Toward the 21st Century (pp. 194-211). NY: Longman
Publishers.


EDITED BOOKS

Nieto, Sonia (Ed.) (2005). Why We Teach. New York: Teachers College Press.

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Nieto, Sonia (Ed.) (2000). Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.


Rivera, Ralph & Nieto, Sonia (Eds.) (1993). The Education of Latino Students in Massachusetts: Issues, Research, and Policy Implications. Boston: Gastón Institute for Latino Public Policy andCommunity Development.


JOURNAL ARTICLES

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"Schools for a New Majority: The Role of Teacher Education in Hard times." The New Educator, v. 1, n. 1 (January-March, 2005), pp. 27-43. [Download document as a PDF

“Mentoring Latina Nurses: A Multicultural Perspective” (Rivera-Goba, M. & Nieto, S.). Journal of Latinos and Education, 6 (1), forthcoming January 2007.


“ Education and Diversity” (James A. Banks, Peter Cookson, Geneva Gay, Willis D. Hawley, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Sonia Nieto, Janet Ward Schofield, & Walter G. Stephen), Social Education, v. 69, n. 1 (2005), pp. 36-40.


“ Public Education in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: High Hopes, Broken Promises, and an Uncertain Future.” Harvard Educational Review, v. 75, n. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 57-78.


Reprint
Charner-Laird, Megin, Donaldson, Morgaen L., & Hong, Soo (Eds.), Education Past and Present: Reflections on Research, Policy, and Practice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review (forthcoming).


“Social Justice in Hard Times: Celebrating the Vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Multicultural Perspectives, v. 7, n. 1 (2005), pp. 3-7.

“Black, White, and Us: The Meaning of Brown v. Board of Education for Latinos.” Multicultural Perspectives, v. 6, n. 4 (2004), pp. 22-25.


“ Schools for a New Majority: The Role of Teacher Education in Hard Times,” The New Educator. Inaugural issue, April 2004, pp. 26 – 42.


“ Identity, Personhood, and Puerto Rican Students: Challenging Paradigms of Assimilation and Authenticity,” Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly 1 (4), Summer 2003, pp. 41-62 (published in early 2004).


“ Challenging Notions of ‘Highly Qualified Teachers’ Through Work in a Teachers’ Inquiry Group,” Journal of Teacher Education, special issue on “Teaching from the Heart,” v. 54, no. 5 (November/December, 2003), pp. 386-398.


“ What Keeps Teachers Going?” Educational Leadership, v. 60, n. 8 (May 2003), 14–18.

 

Reprint
Scherer, Marge (Ed), Keeping Good Teachers. Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, pp. 205-212, 2003.

“ Profoundly Multicultural Questions,” Educational Leadership, v. 60, n. 4 (December 2002/January 2003), pp. 6 - 10.

 

Reprint
Selected for inclusion in The Best of Educational Leadership, 2002-2003.

“ Teachers’ Experiences in a Critical Inquiry Group: A Conversation in Three Voices” (with Stephen Gordon and Junia Yearwood). Teaching Education 13 (3), pp. 341-355 (December 2002).

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“ Diversity Within Unity: Essential Principles for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society” (by James A. Banks, Peter Cookson, Geneva Gay, Willis D. Hawley, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Sonia Nieto, Janet Ward Schofield, & Walter G. Stephan). Phi Delta Kappan, 83 (3), pp. 196-203 (Nov 2001).

 

Reprint
Schultz, Fred, Annual Editions: Multicultural Education, 03/04. Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 10th edition, 2003, pp. 68-73.

“ What Keeps Teachers Going in Spite of Everything? And Other Thoughts on the Future of Public Education,” Journal of Equity and Excellence in Education, 34 (1), pp. 6 –15, April 2001.


“ Multicultural/Intercultural Teacher Education in Two Contexts: Lessons from the United States and Spain” (with Miguel Anxo Santos Rego), Journal of Teaching and Teaching Education, 16 (4), pp. 413-427, Spring 2000.


“ Placing Equity Front and Center: Some Thoughts on Transforming Teacher Education for a New Century,” Journal of Teacher Education, 51 (3), pp. 180-187, May 2000.


“ Formación Multi/Intercultural del Profesorado: Perspectivas en los Estados Unidos y España,” Teoría de la Educación, 9, 1997, 55-74 (with Miguel Santos Rego; published July 1999).


“ What Does it Mean to Affirm Diversity in Our Nation’s Schools?” The School Administrator, 56 (5), pp. 32-34, May, 1999.

 

Reprint
Noll, James Wm., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Educational Issues, 11th ed., Guilford, Ct: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2001, pp. 118-121.

“ Fact and Fiction: Stories of Puerto Ricans in U.S. Schools,” Harvard Educational Review, 68 (2), pp. 133-163. Special issue on the education of Puerto Ricans, Summer, 1998.

 

Reprints
Carter, D. J., Flores, S. M., & Reddick, R. J. (Eds.). Legacies of Brown: Multiracial Perspectives and Realities of Educational Equity. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review. (forthcoming).


Segarra, J. A. & Dobles, R. (Eds.) learning as a political act: struggles for learning and learning from struggles. Reprint Series. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1999, pp. 47-73.

“ Realidad y Ficción: Historias de Puertorriqueños en Escuelas Estadounidenses,” Harvard Educational Review, 68 (2S, Spanish Edition), pp. 1-34.

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Panelist, Ethnicity and Education Forum: “What Difference does Difference Make?” Harvard Educational Review, v. 67, n. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 169-187.


“ Writing for Real: Exploring and Affirming Students’ Words and Worlds,” MABE Newsletter (Massachusetts Association for Bilingual Education)/ Part 1, v. 18, n. 2 (February, 1997) and Part 2, v. 18, n. 3 (June, 1997).


“ Puerto Rican Children’s Literature and Culture in the Public Library” (with Lori Mestre). Multicultural Review, v. 5, n. 2 (June, 1996), 26-38.

 

Reprint
Berman, Sanford & Danky, James P. (Eds.) (1998). Alternative Library Literature, 1996/1997: A Biennial Anthology. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, pp. 105-115.

Lessons from Students on Creating a Chance to Dream.” Harvard Educational Review, v. 64, n. 4 (Winter, 1994) 392 - 426.

 

Reprints
Plaut, Suzanne & Sharkey, Nancy, Education Policy and Practice: Bridging the Divide. Reprint Series #37, pp. 175 – 211. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 2003.

HER Classics Series #11 (12 Selected as one of twelve “Classic Articles” from the Harvard Educational Review, 1931-2000).


Brizuela, Barbara M. et., al. (Eds.) Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research. Reprint Series #34, pp. 355-387. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 2000.


Mintz, Ethan & Yun, John T. (Eds.) The Complex World of Teaching: Perspectives from Theory and Practice. Reprint Series #31, pp. 377-409. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1999. (Selected for a Critics’ Choice Award by the American Studies Educational Studies Association, Nov. 2001).

Capella Noya, Gladys, Geismar, Kathryn, & Nicoleau, Guitele (Eds). Shifting Histories: Transforming Schools for Social Change. Reprint Series # 26, 3-36. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1996.


Working Together Toward Reform, a special volume from the Harvard Educational Review on school reform. Fall, 1996.


Dealing with Diversity: Ensuring Success for Every Student, a special volume from
Harvard Educational Review on diversity and learning, Fall, 1995.

“ Epilogue: What are our Children Capable of Knowing?” in the Educational Forum of Kappa Delta Pi, v. 58, n. 4 (Summer, 1994), 434 - 440.

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“ Affirmation, Solidarity, and Critique: Moving Beyond Tolerance in Multicultural Education.” Multicultural Education, v. 1, n. 4 (Spring, 1994), pp. 9-12, 35-38.

 

Reprints
Reading the World: Redefining Literature and History Curriculum. A Justice Matters Institute Report from the Multicultural Education Summit convened by the San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA, Fall, 1999, pp. 53-65.


Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart, & Margo Okazawa-Rey (Eds.). Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development. Washington, DC: NECA, 1997, pp. 7-18.

Schultz, Fred, Annual Editions: Multicultural Education, 95/96. 2nd. ed., 1995, pp. 63-69; and Schultz, Fred, Annual Editions: Multicultural Education, 96/97, 3rd ed. Guilford, CT: The Dushkin Publishing Group, 1996, pp. 59-65.

 

“ Children's Understanding of Basal Readers”(with David Bloome), Theory into Practice, v. 28, n. 4 (Autumn, l989), pp. 258-264.


Reprint
In Patrick Shannon (Ed.), Becoming Political: Readings and Writings in the Politics of Literacy Education, pp. 83-93. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992.

“ Parent Involvement in Bilingual Education: Whose Responsibility is it?” NABE Journal, v. 11, n. 2 (Winter, l987) p. 189-201.


“ Equity in Education: The Case for Bilingual Education,” in Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, v. l7, n. 3 & 4 (l986), pp. 4-8.


“ Past Accomplishments, Current Needs: La Lucha Continúa,” Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, v. l7, #2, l986.


“ Who's Afraid of Bilingual Parents?” The Bilingual Review, v. l2, n. 3 (l985), pp. 179-189.


“ Children's Literature on Puerto Rican Themes -- Part l: The Messages of Fiction”; “Part 11: Non-fiction” in Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, v. l4, n. l &2 (l983).

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Nieto, Sonia & Bode, Patty (forthcoming). School reform and student learning: A multicultural perspective. In James A. Banks & Cherry A. McGee Banks (Eds.), Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 7th rev. ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.


Nieto, Sonia (forthcoming). Multicultural education in the United States: Theory, Practice, and Transformation. In James A. Banks (Ed.). The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education. New York: Routledge.


Irizarry, Jason & Nieto, Sonia (forthcoming). Latino contributions to educational praxis: Abriendo caminos, construyendo puentes. In Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. (Ed.), Handbook of Latinos in Education: Research, Theory, and Practice. New York: Routledge.


Nieto, Sonia (2008). Go beyond niceness: Think critically about what it means to “care” for students of color. In Mica Pollock (Ed.), Everyday Antiracism: Concrete Ways to Successfully Navigate the Relevance of Race in School. New York: The New Press.


Nieto, Sonia, Bode, Patty, Kang, Eugenie, & Raible, John (2008). Identity, community, and diversity: Retheorizing multicultural curriculum for the postmodern era. In Michael Connelly, Ming Fang He, & JoAnn Phillion (Eds.). Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction (pp. 176-197). Los Angeles: Sage Publishers.


Nieto, Sonia & Johnson, Helen (2008). The sociopolitical context of No Child Left Behind: Hard times and courageous responses. In Helen Johnson and Arthur Salz (Eds.), What is Educational Reform? Pushing Against the Compassionate Conservative Agenda (pp. 15-24). Mahwah, NJ: Routledge.
Nieto, Sonia (2007). Latinos and the elusive quest for equal education. In Juan Flores & Renato Rosaldo (Eds.). Latino Studies Companion (pp. 217-228). Blackwell Publishers.
Nieto, Sonia (2007). School reform and student learning: A multicultural perspective. In James A. Banks & Cherry A. McGee Banks (Eds.), Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives (pp. 425-443), 6th rev. ed. (3rd rev. ed., 1997; 4th rev. ed., 2001; 5th rev. ed., 2004). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Nieto, Sonia (2006). A Nuyorican in the academy: Lessons learned. In Theodorea Regina Berry & Nathalie D. Mizelle (Eds.), From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas Within the Academy (pp. 244-256). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Nieto, Sonia (2004). Puerto Rican students in U.S. schools: A troubled past and the search for a hopeful future. In James A. Banks & Cherry A. McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, 2nd ed. (pp. 515-541). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Raible, John & Nieto, Sonia (2003). Beyond categories: The complex identities of adolescents. In Michael Sadowski (Ed.), Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education (pp. 145-161). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Nieto, Sonia & Gordon, Stephen (2002). Adult conversations about unasked questions. In Parker Palmer & Sam Intrator (Eds.), Honoring the Teacher’s Heart: Stories of the Courage to Teach (pp. 64-77). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Gebhard, Meg, Austin, Theresa, Nieto, Sonia & Willett, J. (2002). “You can’t step on someone else’s words”: Preparing all teachers to teach language minority students. In Zeynep Beykont (Ed.), The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference (pp. 219-243). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Publishing Group.
Nieto, Sonia (2001). We speak in many tongues: Linguistic diversity and multicultural education (revised and updated). In Carlos P. Díaz (Ed.), Multicultural Education for the Twenty-first Century (pp. 152-170). New York: Allyn & Bacon.
Nieto, Sonia (2000). Puerto Rican students in U.S. schools: A brief history. In Sonia Nieto (Ed.), Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools (pp. 5-37). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nieto, Sonia (2000). Bringing bilingual education out of the basement and other imperatives for teacher education. In Zeynep Beykont (Ed.), Lifting Every Voice: Pedagogy and Politics of Bilingual Education (pp. 187-207). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing Group.
Nieto, Sonia (1999). Culturally relevant cases: A personal reflection and implications for teacher education. In Mary A. Lundeberg, Barbara B. Levin, & Helen Harrington (Eds.), Who Learns What From Cases and How? The Research Base for Teaching with Cases (pp. 179-196). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Nieto, Sonia (1999). Critical multicultural education and students’ perspectives. In Stephan May (Ed.), Rethinking Multicultural and Antiracist Education: Towards Critical Multiculturalism (pp. 191-215.). London: Falmer Press.
Reprint:

  Ladson-Billings, Gloria & Gillborn, David (2004). The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education (pp 179-200). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.


Nieto, Sonia (1999). “Funny, you don’t look Puerto Rican,” and other musings on developing a philosophical orientation to multicultural education research. In Carl A. Grant (Ed.). Multicultural Research: A Reflective Engagement with Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation (pp. 145-156). London: Falmer Press.
Nieto, Sonia (1998). On becoming American: An exploratory essay. In William C. Ayers & Janet L. Miller (Eds.), A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation (pp. 45-57). New York: Teachers College Press.
Reprint:
Puerto Ricans in America: PBS Online Commentaries on “Almost a Woman”:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_puertoricans_nieto.html

Nieto, Sonia (1998). From claiming hegemony to sharing space: Creating community in multicultural courses. In Rudolfo Chávez Chávez & James O’Donnell (Eds.), Speaking the Unpleasant: The Politics of Non-Engagement in the Multicultural Education Terrain (pp. 16-31). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Nieto, Sonia (1998). Cultural difference and educational change in a sociopolitical context. In Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Michael Fullan, & David Hopkins (Eds.), International Handbook of Educational Change (pp. 418-439). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Nieto, Sonia & Rolón, Carmen (1997). Preparation and professional development of teachers: A perspective from two Latinas. In Jacqueline Jordan Irvine (Ed.), Critical Knowledge for Diverse Teachers and Learners (pp. 93-128). Washington, DC: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
Nieto, Sonia (1997). Diversity: What do teachers need to know? In J. L. Paul, M. Churton, H. Rosselli-Kostoryz, W. C. Morse, K. Marfo, C. Lavely, & D. Thomas (Eds.), Foundations of Special Education: Some of the Knowledge Informing Research and Practice in Special Education (pp. 324-347). Brooks/Cole Publishers.
Nieto, Sonia (1997). We have stories to tell: Puerto Ricans in children's books. In Violet J. Harris (Ed.), Using Multiethnic Literature in the K-8 Classroom (pp. 59-93). (1st ed, 1992). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.
Reprint (1st ed.):
Rethinking Schools, v. 8, n. 2 (Winter, 1993), pp. 3, 20-23.
Nieto, Sonia (1996). “I like making my mind work”: Language minority students and the curriculum. In Catherine E. Walsh (Ed.), Education Reform and Social Change: Multicultural Voices, Struggles, and Visions (pp. 147-163). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Nieto, Sonia (1995). From brown heroes and holidays to assimilationist agendas: Reconsidering the critiques of multicultural education. In Christine E. Sleeter & Peter McLaren (Eds.), Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Difference (pp. 191-220). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Nieto, Sonia (1995). A history of the education of Puerto Rican students in U.S. schools: ‘Losers,’ ‘outsiders,’ or ‘leaders’? In James A. Banks & Cherry McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (388-411). NY: Macmillan Publishers.
Nieto, Sonia (1993). Creating possibilities: Educating Latino students in Massachusetts. In Ralph Rivera & Sonia Nieto (Eds.), The Education of Latino Students in Massachusetts: Issues, Research, and Policy Implications (pp. 243-261). Boston: Gastón Institute for Latino Public Policy & Development.
Frau-Ramos, Manuel & Nieto, Sonia (1993). “I was an outsider”: Dropping out among Puerto Rican youths in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In Ralph Rivera & Sonia Nieto (Eds.), The Education of Latino Students in Massachusetts: Issues, Research, and Policy Implications (pp. 147-169). Boston: Gastón Institute for Latino Public Policy and Development, 1993.
Nieto, Sonia (1993). Latinos in the United States: Complexities of challenges and opportunities. In Ibero-American Heritage Curriculum: Latinos in the Making of the United States of America, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Albany: New York State Education Department, 1993.
Nieto, Sonia & Sinclair, Robert (1992). Leadership and the expanded environment for learning. In Bruce G. Barnett, Frank O. McQuarrie, & Cynthia J. Norris (Eds.), The Moral Imperatives of Leadership: A Focus on Human Decency (pp. 39-56). Memphis: National Network for Innovative Principal Preparation.
Nieto, Sonia (1992). We speak in many tongues: Language diversity and multicultural education. In Carlos P. Díaz (Ed.), Multicultural Education for the Twenty-first Century (pp. 112-136). Washington, DC: National Education Association.
Reprint:
Ada, Alma Flor & Tinajero, Josefina (Eds.) (1992). The Power of Two Languages: Literacy and Biliteracy for Hispanic Students. (pp. 37-48), NY: McMillan/McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
Nieto, Sonia & Markman, Susan (1988). Equity and curriculum renewal. In Robert L. Sinclair & Sonia Nieto (Eds.), Renewing School Curriculum: Concerns for Equal and Quality Education (pp. 37-44) MA: Coalition for School Improvement.
Nieto, Sonia (1987). Self-affirmation or self-destruction? The image of Puerto Ricans in children's literature written in English. In Asela Rodriguez de Laguna (Ed.), Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Two World Contexts (pp. 211-226). NJ: Transaction Publications.
Nieto, Sonia (1987). ¿Auto-afirmación o auto-destrucción? La imagen de los puertorriqueños en la literatura de niños escrita en ingles. In Asela Rodriguez de Laguna (Ed.), Imágenes e identidades: El puertorriqueño en la literatura (pp. 257-272). Río Piedras, PR: Ediciones Huracán.
Nieto, Sonia (1987). Bilingual education and Puerto Rican Studies. In María E. Sánchez & Antonio Stevens-Arroyo (Eds.), Toward a Renaissance of Puerto Rican Studies: Ethnic and Area Studies in University Education (pp. 37-43). NY: Atlantic Research and Publications, Columbia University Press.

 


OTHER WRITINGS

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RESEARCH REPORTS
“‘ I Was An Outsider’: Dropping Out Among Puerto Rican Youths in Holyoke, Massachusetts” (with Manuel Frau-Ramos). Paper prepared for the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Public Policy and Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston, September, 1991.

JOURNAL EDITOR
Issue on National Curriculum Standards, Educational Forum, v. 58, n. 4 (Summer, 1994).
Issue on Bilingual Education, Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, v. l7, n.3 & 4 (l986).


Special double issue of the Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, “Puerto Ricans in Children's Literature and History Texts: A Ten-year Update,” v. l4, n. l &2 (l983).

MONOGRAPHS
Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for Teacher Education. 26th Annual Charles DeGarmo Lecture, 2002 AERA meeting, New Orleans, LA. Published by the Society of Professors of Education.


Puerto Rican Literature and Society: A Curriculum for the Secondary School (with Roberto Márquez) Ford Foundation and Rutgers University, l986.


Renewing School Curriculum: Concerns for Equal and Quality Education (with Robert L. Sinclair). Amherst, MA: Coalition for School Improvement, l988.


COMMISSIONED PAPERS

“ The Preparation and Professional Development of Teachers: A Perspective from Two Latinas” (with Carmen Rolón) CULTURES Project, Emory University, Atlanta, GA., November, 1995.


“ Diversity: What do Teachers Need to Know?” Paper prepared for Vision 2000: Florida’s Future for Special Education, November, 1994.


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“ Language, Literacy, and Culture: Intersections and Implication.” In Timothy Shanahan & Flora Rodríguez-Brown (Eds.), 49th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 41-60). Chicago: National Reading Conference, 2000.

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Diane Pollard & Olga Welch (Eds.), From Center to Margins: The Importance of Self-Definition in Research. SUNY Press (forthcoming).


Harriet Luria, Deborah M. Seymour, & Trudy Smoke (Eds.) Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers (p. 315-331). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.


“ The Preparation and Professional Development of Teachers: A Perspective from Two Latinas” (with Carmen Rolón) in Defining the Knowledge Base for Urban Teacher Education Invitational Conference, CULTURES Project, Emory University, Atlanta, November, 1995.


“ Experts’ Remarks on Vital Steps Toward Educating a Diverse Nation” in conference proceedings of Multicultural Education: Steps to Practice, Northeast Consortium for Multicultural Education, White Plains, NY, October, 1994.


“ Challenges and Opportunities: Four Sides of the Same Coin” in conference proceedings of the Ibero-American Heritage Project International Planning Conference, Santillana del Mar, Spain, October, l988, New York State Department of Education, pp. 117-125.


“ The Social Perspective” in Conference Proceedings of the Ibero-American Heritage Project International Planning Conference, Sterling Forest, New York, October, l987, N. Y. State Dept. of Education.


“ Bilingual Education” in Conference Proceedings, Eastern Regional Conference on Hispanic Educational Issues: La Próxima Década, U.S. Department of Education, l982.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Intergroup Dialogue: Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community and Workplace. Edited by David Schoem and Sylvia Hurtado. Reviewed by Patty Bode and Sonia Nieto. Teachers College Record, v. 105, n. 7 (September 2003), pp. 1298-1301.


Latino High School Graduation: Defying the Odds (by Harriet D. Romo and Toni Falbo), in Latino Review of Books, 2, 3 (Winter 1996-1997), 48-49.


Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks (by Jim Cummins & Dennis Sayers), in NABE News, 20, 2 (November 1, 1996), 11-12.


Bilingual Education: Politics, Practice, Research (by M. Beatriz Arias & Ursula Casanova, Eds.) in the Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 16, 1 (1994), 103-110.


“ Multiculturalism in Higher Education: Emerging Literature.” Equity & Excellence in Education, 26, 3 (December, 1993) 77-79.


Pedagogy and the Struggle for Voice: Issues of Language, Power and Schooling for Puerto Ricans (by Catherine E. Walsh), in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v. 13, n. 4 (1992), 378-382.


Barriers to Excellence: Our Children at Risk (National Coalition of Advocates for Students) in Excellence and Equity in Education, v.22, n. 4-6 (Summer l986), pp. 139-142.


Open Minds to Equality (by Nancy Schneidewind & Ellen Davidson) in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v. 6, n. 2 (l985), pp. 203-204.


Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, v. l0, n. 4, 7, 8; v. 11, n. l & 2, 3 & 4; v. l2, n. 3, 7, 8; v. l3, n. 2 & 3.


ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

“ A Life of Teaching: Reflections from Teachers in an Inquiry Group” (with Sonie Felix and Karen Gelzinis. Urban Education, University of Pennsylvania (November 2002). http://www.urbanedjournal.org/articles/article0005.html


Excerpt from Chapter 7, The Light in Their Eyes for Bookmark, monthly electronic newsletter of the National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform, February 2002. http://www.goodschools.gwu.edu/pubs/book/feb02.html


Book review (with Patty Bode), Intergroup Dialogue, Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community, and Workplace, Edited by David Louis Schoem and Sylvia Hurtado, University of Michigan Press, 2001. Teachers College Record, March 25, 2002. http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=10901

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Afterword – A Project of Hope: Defining a New Agenda for Latino Education in the 21st Century.” In Pedro Pedraza & Melissa Rivera (Eds.), Latino /a Education: An Agenda for Research and Advocacy (pp. 459-466). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2005.


“ Multicultural Education: Access, Equity, and Social Justice: An Interview With Sonia Nieto” by Mike Seymour, In Educating for Humanity: Rethinking the Purposes of Education, edited by Mike Seymour. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, and Clinton, WA: The Heritage Institute, 2004, pp. 122-127.

Foreword, Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World: Multicultural Education for Young Children 2nd. ed. (1998) and 3rd ed. (2004), by Patricia Ramsey. New York: Teachers College Press.


Prólogo, Pedagogía Intercultural, edited by Teresa Aguado Odina. McGraw-Hill, 2004.


Response to the poem “I Remember” by Lydia Cortés, in Teaching With Fire, edited by Sam Intrator. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003, pp. 38-39.


Afterword, Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding, edited by Stuart Greene and Dawn Abt-Perkins (pp. 201 – 205). New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.


Preface, Rethinking School Reform, edited by Linda Christensen and Stan Karp. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools, 2003.


Foreword, School Kids, Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students by Nilda Flores-González. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.


Foreword, Narratives, 6 (1). Special issue, “Whose Social Justice? Overcoming Barriers to Educational Equity and Excellence,” Summer, 2001, p. 9.


Essay, “On Creative Extremism,” Rethinking Schools, 15 (1), Spring 2001, p. 13.


Contributor (with James A. Banks, Peter Cookson, Geneva Gay, Willis D. Hawley, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Janet Ward Schofield, and Walter W. Stephan), Diversity Within Unity: Essential Principles, edited by James A. Banks (funded by the Carnegie Foundation), 2001.


Foreword, The Best for Our Children: Latina/o Voices on Literacy edited by María de la Luz Reyes and John J. Halcón. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001.


The Promise of Urban Schools, prepared by the Senior Fellows in Urban Education (Christelle Martínez Estrada, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Diana Lam, Pauline Lipman, Jabari Mahiri, Sonia Nieto, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, & Valerie Ooka Pang). Providence, RI: Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2000.

Foreword, Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities, edited by Carolyn O’Grady. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.


Response, “A Gesture Toward Justice: Small Schools and the Promise of Equal Education.” In Simple Justice: The Small Schools Revolution and the Fight for Fairness in Our Schools, edited by William Ayers (pp. 13-17). New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.


Foreword, Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms edited by Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Elizabeth Radin Simons, Julie Shalhope Kalnin, Alex Casareno, and the M-CLASS Teams. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999.


Foreword, We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools by Gary Howard. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999


Foreword, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute Anti-Bias Study Guide. Washington, DC: Anti-Defamation League, 1998.

Foreword, Teaching and Using Multicultural Literature in Grades 9-12, ed. edited by Arlette Willis. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc., 1998.


Introduction to Chapter 6, “Newcomers Establishing Roots” in The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers, edited by Daphne Muse. New York: The New Press, 1997, p. 439.


Definition of “Puerto Rican Studies,” in Dictionary of Multicultural Education (pp. 225-226) edited by Carl A. Grant and Gloria Ladson-Billings. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1997.


Foreword, Through Students’ Eyes: Combating Racism in United States Schools, by Karen B. McLean Donaldson. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1996.


Contributor and member, Multicultural Booklist Committee (Rudine Sims Bishop and the Multicultural Booklist Committee), Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.

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