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In this unique collection of essays about diversity, society and education, the author provides readers with valuable insights from his own life story and from some of the most thought-provoking articles he has written over the past three decades.

Fourth Quarter: Reflections of a Cranky Old Man is historian-public lecturer Carlos Cort�s' poetic rumination on life as viewed from the perspective of a post-75-year-old who is traversing the fourth quarter of his life. Sometimes ironic, sometimes nostalgic, while continuously introspective, Fourth Quarter teases strands both from Cortes' personal experiences and from his responses to the always-surprising, occasionally-baffling world he has observed throughout more than eight decades."Fourth Quarter" is organized into four major sections. "Looking Back" contemplates revealing moments in Cort�s life, from his days growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, through his experience in the U.S. Army to becoming a university professor. "Looking Out" focuses on the often-absurd world around us, including Cort�s' contemporary encounters with baffling bureaucratic institutions, recalcitrant telephone menus, and unintentionally-instructive people with whom he has interacted throughout the human comedy of life."Looking In" examines the increasing personal challenges brought about by age, whether dealing with omnipresent tinnitus, preparing for a colonoscopy, or filling out medical directives. "Looking Ahead" expresses Cort�s' hopes, concerns, and expectations of the future, as he contemplates such themes as retirement, mentoring, class reunions, and society's changing conceptions of "old."In addition to those four major sections, the collection contains an interlude entitled "Intergenerational Trilogy." In that section, Cort�s muses about cross-generational relationships, whether this involves driving, cell phone-distracted pedestrians, family interactions, or restaurant conversations.The book concludes with "Overtime." In closing the collection, Cort�s' ruminates on the possibility that he might actually complete his Fourth Quarter, which means contemplating life after 100.

A Conversation with Alana is a one-hour, one-person autobiographical play written by Carlos E. Cortés. He has performed the play more than 150 times throughout the United States. In his play, Cortés presents his story of growing up as a young man of mixed ancestry in racially segregated, religiously divided, class conscious early post-World War II Kansas City, Missouri. The son of a Mexican Catholic immigrant father and an American-born Jewish mother, whose parents came from Austria and Ukraine, Cortés had to learn to navigate Kansas City's rigid racial, ethnic, and religious fault lines, while simultaneously dealing with the internal conflicts of his own divided family. The Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, Cortés travels the world with his wife, Laurel, while lecturing on cruise ships, reviewing television scripts, and giving talks and workshops on diversity.

Carlos Cortes has been involved in the growth of multiculturalism from the 1960s to the present day. He is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside. Available in-person in California and by request. Cortes has written the compelling story of his life in this thought-provoking collection of essays about diversity, society, and education. In many ways, Cortes's personal and professional story is the story of the multicultural movement itself. Containing thirteen momentous essays, this volume gives witness to the struggles and successes that Cortes and many others have experienced while striving to create a place for the voices, values, and visions of racial and ethnic groups in our culturally diverse nation and shrinking world.

Explains how the media can help students acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to participate in cross-cultural interactions.

A Jewish Mexican American author chronicles his family’s tumultuous, decades-long spars over religion, class, and culture in this candid, inspiring memoir. The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos E. Cortés grew up wedged between cultures. He grew up “straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, and trying to fit into a world that wasn’t quite ready.” His request for a bar mitzvah sent his father into a cursing rage. He was terrified to bring home the Catholic girl he was dating, for fear of wounding his mother. When he tried to join a fraternity, Christians wouldn’t take him because he was Jewish, and Jews looked sideways at him because his father was Mexican. In Rose Hill, Cortés recounts his family’s experiences from his early years in legally segregated 1940s Kansas City to his return to Berkeley in the 1950s, and to his parents’ separation, reconciliation, deaths, and eventual burials at the Rose Hill Cemetery. Cortés elevates the theme of intermarriage to a new level of complexity in this closely observed and emotionally fraught memoir.

In this book, nationally renowned scholars join classroom teachers to share equity-oriented approaches that have been successful with urban high school mathematics students. Compiling for the first time major research findings and practitioner experiences from Railside High School, the volume describes the evolution of a fundamentally different conception of learners and teaching. The chapters bring together research and reflection on teacher collaboration and professional community, student outcomes and mathematics classroom culture, reform curricula and pedagogy, and ongoing teacher development. Mathematics for Equity will be invaluable reading for teachers, schools, and districts interested in maintaining a focus on equity and improving student learning while making sense of the new demands of the Common Core State Standards. Book Features: Core principles of an equity-centered mathematics program. Examples of how to focus and organize the collaborative work of a math department to develop a shared pedagogy. Student experiences with an equity pedagogy that focuses on building perseverance, flexibility in thinking, and deep conceptual understanding. Connections between reconceptualizing learners and teaching, and achieving deep mathematics learning and equitable outcomes. Contributors include: Jo Boaler, Ilana Seidel Horn, Judith Warren Little, and Rachel Lotan. “Mathematics for Equity provides a kaleidoscopic view, in the voices of teachers, researchers, and students themselves, of one of the nation’s most ambitious and successful attempts at teaching mathematics for equity. It shows what it takes to create a climate that supports students and teachers in engaging in meaningful mathematical activity—and, alas, how vulnerable such environments are to the wrong kinds of ‘accountability.’ Read it and learn.” —Alan H. Schoenfeld, University of California at Berkeley “Want to fix what's wrong with mathematics instruction in your school? Read this book with your colleagues and do what it inspires you to do. Written by the brave teachers and former students who did it, as well as researchers.” —Phil Daro, writing team, Common Core Standards, Strategic Education Research Partnership

Planejamento estratégico governamental no Brasil: autoritarismo e democracia (1930-2016) compara o planejamento estratégico governamental levado a cabo por duas estratégias de desenvolvimento em regimes políticos antitéticos, quais sejam, o Nacional-Desenvolvimentismo Autoritário (1964-1985) e o Novo Desenvolvimentismo Democrático (2003-2016). Ambas têm como pontos de convergência o intervencionismo estatal de modalidade intrinsecamente capitalista e o corporativismo enquanto instância de intermediação de interesses no que concerne às relações Estado/sociedade, público/privado e capital/trabalho. O planejamento estratégico governamental é concebido numa perspectiva macroestrutural de longo prazo, tendo em vista a consecução de uma estratégia nacional que viabilize o aprofundamento da industrialização, a diversificação da estrutura produtiva, o crescimento econômico e a produção de políticas públicas para a incorporação social de setores tradicionalmente excluídos. Quando comparadas ao regime autoritário modernizador e excludente – que negligenciou a temática da incorporação social ao privilegiar o produtivismo econômico –, as capacidades estatais e burocráticas, no regime político democrático, foram mais eficazes no sentido de que o planejamento governamental capitalista de longo prazo criou condições institucionais inéditas para o crescimento econômico com distribuição de renda, inclusão social, instauração de um mercado doméstico de consumo de massas e retração das históricas desigualdades sociais estruturais. Não obstante, as modalidades de planejamento estratégico governamental do Nacional-Desenvolvimentismo Autoritário e do Novo Desenvolvimentismo Democrático sucumbiram. A primeira esgotou-se diante do baixo crescimento econômico, de fraturas em sua coalizão político-empresarial de apoio, da hiperinflação, do endividamento externo e da crise fiscal do Estado. A segunda fracassou em razão do monumental escândalo de corrupção da Petrobras, do enfraquecimento das capacidades estatais de intervenção, da resiliência de políticas macroeconômicas neoliberais, da grave crise fiscal, do poder do capitalismo financeiro, da ausência de reformas estruturais (tributária, política, agrária) e da crise político-institucional que contribuiu para ceifar a coalizão política, econômica e societal de suporte. Merecem ser salientadas a inaptidão da Presidência da República na gestão, coordenação e operacionalização da coalizão parlamentar/governativa, a queda substantiva da popularidade, a perda de suporte social, a traição dos partidos da "base aliada" no Congresso Nacional e a instauração, em 2016, do golpe de Estado parlamentar liderado pelo então vice-presidente Michel Temer, que contou com o respaldo do empresariado industrial, dos economistas ortodoxos, da grande imprensa, da mídia oligopolista, do capital financeiro, das classes abastadas e do Poder Judiciário. Tal ruptura democrática instituiu – discricionariamente, indiscriminadamente e sem diálogo com a sociedade – a constitucionalização da austeridade fiscal perene. O resultado é a asfixia das políticas públicas do (incipiente) Estado do Bem-Estar Social e a acentuação do divórcio entre a (combalida) democracia representativa de massas e os interesses do sistema de poder financeiro, cada vez mais estruturado e politicamente organizado.