Jerry Garcia Bücher

Scholarly books and journal articles routinely close with policy recommendations. Yet these recommendations rarely reach politicians. How can academics engage more effectively in the policy process? In Teach Truth to Power, David Garcia offers a how-to guide for scholars and researchers who want to influence education policy, explaining strategies for putting research in a policy context, getting ?in the room? where policy happens, finding unexpected allies, interacting with politicians, and more. 0 0Countering conventional wisdom about research utilization (also referred to as knowledge mobilization), Garcia explains that engaging in education policy is not a science, it is a craft?a combination of acquired knowledge and intuition that must be learned through practice. Engaging in policy is an interpersonal process; academics who hope to influence policy have to get face-to-face with the politicians who create policy. Garcia?s experience as trusted insider, researcher, and political candidate make him uniquely qualified to offer a roadmap that connects research to policy. He explains that academics can leverage their content expertise to build relationships with politicians (even before they are politicians); demonstrates the effectiveness of the research one-pager; and shows how academics can teach politicians to be champions of research

Focusing on the migration and settlement of Mexicans in North Central Washington, the narrative traces the arrival of braceros during World War II, followed by Mexican American families from south Texas in the late 1940s. The early 1950s saw further migration from the Yakima Valley in search of economic opportunities. By the late 1980s, these communities began to establish roots, starting businesses and purchasing homes, leading to greater integration and participation in a diverse economic landscape.