University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Education

Mariana Pacheco Helps Bilingual Youth Find their Voices

Professor Mariana Pacheco and two collaborators published “Re-imagining social futures: Bi/multilingual youths’ sociocritical literacies” in the July 2025 issue of the Journal of Literacy Research. The paper focuses on a summer writing program that Pacheco and her colleagues called GANAS (an acronym using a word that means “desire” or “motivation” in Spanish) for bi/multilingual youth, …

CLS Affiliate Diego Román to Study Education of Rural English Language Learners

CLS Affiliate Faculty member Diego Román (Principal Investigator), along with Co-Investigators Dr. Lisa Barker (PLACE) and Dr. Patrick Robinson (Division of Extension), will lead an interdisciplinary study that will bring together Latinx students and families as well as their science and social studies teachers to examine how local environmental topics (e.g., water quality) impact Latinx …