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Gregory Pulte

PhD student, University of Texas at Austin

Gregory Pulte is a PhD Candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Greg’s research interests center around issues of equity and social justice in education. Greg is currently studying the effects of gentrification on communities and schools in East Austin.

Latest Columns

Public Education

Too Dangerous to be Called Mexican-American Studies

By Gregory Pulte, April 23, 2018

To refer to Mexican-Americans as Americans of Mexican descent is reductive and dismissive. The State Board of Education’s vote renamed an entire ethnic group and a long-standing academic field of study in a way designed to reject Mexican-American identity.

Public Education

Texas needs a proven Mexican American studies curriculum

By Gregory Pulte, March 19, 2018

Our indigenous, Spanish, Mexican and Texan histories form important aspects of our culture and must be acknowledged and studied. Our place in Texas and our uniquely Texan and Tejano character requires nothing less than Mexican American Studies standards. The State Board of Education shouldn't bury all of that in a general Latino Studies curriculum.