George Isidore Sánchez

Sánchez, George Isidore (1906–72), U.S. educator and spokesman for educational reform in the Spanish community. He advocated that schools in Spanish-speaking communities offer bilingual classes, using Spanish-speaking teachers and teaching subjects in Spanish. His book Forgotten People: A Study of New Mexicans (1940) is a classic sociological study. Sanchez received a doctorate in education from the University of California at Berkeley in 1934. He was a professor of Latin-American education at Texas University.

See also: Education.