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Rubén Donato is Professor Emeritus and Chair of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice in the School of Education at the 鶹ӰԺ. Professor Donato is an educational historian interested in the education of non-dominant students in the United States and the historical dimensions of educational equality, with a specialty in Latino education. He is author of The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era (1997) and Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960 (2007), both with SUNY Press.
Professor Donato teaches courses such as School and Society, History of American Education, and the Doctoral Seminar in Multicultural Education.
Professor Donato is an American Educational Research Association (AERA) fellow, was AERA Chair of the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, and served as AERA Program Chair of Division F (History and Historiography). He was a National Academy of Education Post Doctoral Fellow and was recently elected as an at-large council member of the American Educational Research Association.
His teaching excellence has been recognized on several occasions, including the University of Colorado at 鶹ӰԺ “Gold Best Should Teach Award.”
Education
PhD Education (history), Stanford University, 1987
MA History, Stanford University, 1985
BA History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1979