Valenzuela to Open Goizueta Seminar Series

Angela Valenzuela, an associate professor in the department of curriculum and instruction and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will open the Goizueta Seminar Series on Thursday, February 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room G-23 in Aderhold Hall.

The seminar series is being hosted by the College of Education as part of the process of filling the Goizueta Endowed Chair in Latino Teacher Education.

Valenzuela, a Stanford University graduate, will make a presentation titled, "Accountability, Privatization and Political Transformations on the Right."

Valenzuela is the author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring ( www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60016 ), winner of both the 2000 American Educational Research Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2001 Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. She is also editor of a volume titled, Leaving Children Behind: How "Texas-Style" Accountability Fails Latino Youth ( www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61006 ).  She also serves as Education Committee Chair for the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's largest and oldest Latino civil rights organization.

Valenzuela previous teaching positions were in sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas (1990-98), as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston (1998-99). Her teaching interests are in the sociology of education, race and ethnicity in schools, urban education reform, and educational policy.