Recuerdos de mi Barrio - Softcover

Villarreal, Ramon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434358275 ISBN 13: 9781434358271

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2008

Synopsis

Read and experience vicariously events and adventures of barrio youth. Meet interesting characters, perhaps, similar to some you may have known. See an insider's view of cultural activities which are, likely, no longer practiced. Relive youthful times, if you are of the proper age group to remember the era. Learn about situations your parents may have lived through.

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About the Author

Ram¿n Francisco Villarreal has devoted more than half a century to helping the under privileged get ahead in life through a better education.His latest effort, Recuerdos de mi Barrio, while a personal memoir, is also a historical view of life in a poor neighborhood in rural Kansas in the 1940s and the lessons he learned of how to overcome life's day-to-day obstacles.What he learned most from those struggles-and triumphs-was that the path to success is through education. "The one thing that my parents engrained in us was that you never stop learning and that we were going to go to college," Villarreal recalls vividly.Fortunate for the Villarreal children that included a younger sister and a younger brother, their mother was the role model they needed to lead the way. Their mother, Do¿a Mar¿a Nieves Maldonado de Villarreal, was not only the sole female high school graduate in the barrio, but also the only one who later attended college and who eventually obtained more than one degree and became a teacher with a Masters degree. Ram¿n F. Villarreal learned well. Education has been his lifeblood.He is currently the director of the Interwest Equity Assistance Center (EAC) at Colorado State University (CSU). The Center is one of ten federally funded centers that provide technical assistance and training to school educators in their respective regions. The Interwest EAC is based in Denver but attached to the CSU School of Education. The program provides him so much comfort and pleasure that he says:"I have no notions of retiring again until and unless the federal funding dries up." He retired in 1999 as an investigator and manager in the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights with more than 30 years of federal service. The weekend after his official retirement, he went to work for the Center.His service to the advancement of civil rights spans more than fifty years. Along the way, he listened patiently to the complaints from students, teachers and administra

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434358275
• ISBN 13: 9781434358271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188