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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Education

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New study finds immigrant students lead the way in pursuit of U.S. STEM careers

Jan 9, 2019, 5:44 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Mathematics is called the universal language. According to the website, Omniglot: There is no universal language we can talk with one another for everyone to understand, however, there is a universal language we can all quantify…

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Unique online course strives to bring Puerto Rico’s ongoing crisis ‘home’ to students

Aug 29, 2018, 12:54 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the hours after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, it was obvious, to those islanders accustomed to weathering tropical storms, that this was no ordinary hurricane. In the days and weeks that followed, as federal relief…

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Study finds more Latino students attending “apartheid schools”

Oct 30, 2017, 2:16 PM 0

LatinaLista — About 1 in 3 black and Hispanic students in the state now attend a school where more than 90 percent of the students are not white, and on average, they attend schools with one and a half…

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The rate of teacher diversity is getting worse, says study

Sep 28, 2017, 2:16 PM 0

LatinaLista — By all benchmarks, public school attendance is at an all-time high and forecast to increase. In most major cities across the country, public school classrooms are filled with more students of color than white students. The diversity…

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Bilingual micro-investment platform aims to get Latinos into the habit of investing & saving

Aug 17, 2017, 1:46 PM 0

LatinaLista — In 2013, when Pew Research surveyed how many Americans invest in the stock market, they discovered a telling fact — 81 percent of Latinos don’t own stock. But it doesn’t stop at stocks. Latinos are the first…

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New report proves how systemic discrimination is in nation’s public school system

Jun 9, 2016, 4:28 PM 0

LatinaLista — Two headlines that have dominated the news in the last few months when it comes to our public schools are: Latino and Black children are now the “majority-minority” and students of color are among those targeted for…

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Follow-up: Concerned Texans launch petition to force TEA to remove insulting textbook on Mexican American Heritage

May 26, 2016, 11:50 AM 0

LatinaLista — In a follow-up to yesterday’s post Texas Latino school children just got the biggest slap down from the one state agency supposed to be their strongest advocate, LatinaLista was made aware of a petition started at Change.org,…

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Texas Latino school children just got the biggest slapdown from the one state agency supposed to be their strongest advocate

May 25, 2016, 4:17 PM 0

LatinaLista — Demographers have long said to just look at Texas to see the future of the racial make-up of the country. It’s projected that by 2020 the Latino population will surpass all other population groups in Texas to…

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Latino veteran creates his own script for career success with help from FOX News Ailes Apprentice Program

Feb 26, 2016, 11:06 AM 0

LatinaLista — Mauricio Muñoz thought he had his life perfectly scripted out. He just didn’t realize it was only the first draft. The middle son of a Colombiana and Chileno, 33-year-old Mauricio Muñoz grew up in Northern Westchester, New…

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Part-time mariachi singer and 20-year-old mother of three shares why AT&T’s tech program inspired her to create a future for herself

Feb 25, 2016, 4:42 PM 0

LatinaLista — It’s known as High Technology Day and it’s a way for AT&T and members of its Latino employee resource group known as HACEMOS to help promote interest in STEM careers among young Latinas and Latinos across the…

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Not all community colleges are equal – bad news for those Latino students for whom it’s their first stop for higher learning

Sep 2, 2015, 3:59 PM 0

LatinaLista — For many Latino parents of high school graduates, college is not always an immediate certainty. Cost and distance are factors that weigh heavily on many families. And students themselves may be undecided because they don’t know what…

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Even with college acceptance in hand, too many low-income Latinos never make it to campus

Aug 17, 2015, 3:51 PM 0

LatinaLista — Summer break has long been known by educators and parents as a time when students lose some of what they learned during the school year. But who would have blamed summertime on losing the chance to go…

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New Mexican eighth-grader successfully defends title of National Spanish Spelling Bee Champion

Jul 23, 2015, 2:49 PM 0

LatinaLista — Andres Arreola, an eighth-grader from Sunland Park, New Mexico had two goals on his mind when he took the podium at last week’s National Spanish Spelling Bee at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico…

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Meet the Tech Guru Taking on the Word Gap One Mobile App at a Time

Jul 20, 2015, 10:04 AM 0

By Naomi Nix The Seventy-Four Bilingual educational company releases mobile game in English and Spanish for preschoolers   If you’re anything like me the idea of language studies brings back haunting memories of outdated vocabulary worksheets in sixth grade…

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Latino college graduates’ chances of having a good life are “just as likely” as those of privileged white peers

Jul 2, 2015, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — While there is still evidence of an achievement gap between Latino and white students throughout high school into college, and especially in the STEM fields in undergrad classes and graduate school, once low-income Latino and other minority…

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Small Texas town creates unique way of honoring cowboy past and looking ahead to the future

May 4, 2015, 3:52 PM 0

LatinaLista — Aside from the Alamo, one of the most iconic images most people associate with Texas are cowboy boots. Boots have been part of the Lone Star State’s culture when it was still a part of Mexico, and…

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