Education

• Ph.D., UCLA
• M.Ed., UCLA
• B.A., California State University, Long Beach

Specialization and Research Interest
My research examines curriculum issues that affect the educational and life trajectories of English Learners from Xican@/Latin@ and low-income backgrounds in U.S. public schools. I utilize cultural-historical theoretical perspectives on human learning and development to explore how the social, cultural, historical, and political dimensions of these students' schooling experiences affect their teaching and learning opportunities, as well as their educational potential.

Honors and Awards

• Grad School Fall Competition award for a proposal titled, "'The Newsroom as Classroom': An Analysis of Student Writing at a Community Newspaper"

Publications

• Pacheco, M. (under review). ‘Doublethinking’ reading for English Learners: Teachers’ policy-driven remediation of reading comprehension. Submitted to Reading Research Quarterly.
• Pacheco, M. (under review). ‘Performativity’ in the bilingual classroom: English Learners in the new reform context. Submitted to Anthropology & Education Quarterly.
• Pacheco, M. (in press). Expanding Critical Literacies: Examining Chican@ and Latin@ Students’ Political-historical Knowledge. Language Arts.
• Pacheco, , M. & Nao, K. (2009). Re-writing identities: Using historicized writing to promote migrant students’ writing. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 4(1), 24-43.
• Pacheco, M. & Gutiérrez, K. (2008). Cultural historical approaches to literacy teaching and learning. In C. Compton-Lily (Ed.), Breaking the silence: Learning in social and cultural worlds (pp. 60-77). Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association.
• Martínez, R., Orellana, M.F., Pacheco, M., Carbone, P. (2008). Found in translation: Connecting translating experiences to academic writing. Language Arts, 85(6), 421-431.
• Quartz, K.H. & TEP Research Group. (2003). “Too angry to leave”: Supporting new teachers’ commitment to transform urban schools. Journal of Teacher Education, 54(2), 99-111.
• Gutiérrez, K., Moll, L., Asato, J., Pacheco, M., Olson, K. & Horng, E.L. (2002). “Sounding American”: The consequences of new reforms on English Language Learners. Reading Research Quarterly, 37(3), 328-343.
• Montaño, T., López-Torres, L., DeLissovoy, N., Pacheco, M., & Stillman, J. (2002). Teachers as activists: Teacher development and alternate sites of learning. Equity & Excellence in Education, 35(3), 265-275.

Minor Publications and Book Reviews

• Pacheco, M., Martínez, R., & Carbone, P. (2006). Professional book reviews: Learning from multilingual and multicultural students to plan literacy. Language Arts, 84(2), pp. 192-197.

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