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2018
Volume 115, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This column details the curricular changes a secondary English language arts teacher made to center a Chicanx/Latinx young adult literature text set for diverse, multilingual students in a Southwest high school.

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