Category: Children
USA — A Halloween story
By Roxana Urrutia LatinaLista USA — Today is Halloween and since I have no children to talk about, I will tell you an anecdote of one of my friend’s daughter, Ashley. Ashley was a tough cookie. She seldom took “no” for an answer. She argued anything and had plenty to say about everything. She was [...]
Mexico: Understanding the Motivation to Migrate
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO– My stomach knots when my gate bell fails to ring a few seconds after the 3:45 p.m. bus passes. I replay a familiar assumption: “Kirt’s mother must not have had four pesos this week.” When I last saw 3-year-old Kirt, his spine behaved as though it was [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Creating special birthday cakes for kids facing adult challenges
LatinaLista — For a child, there is only one day all year that is special — their birthday. But these are tough times and for too many families birthday parties, complete with pretty cakes are just not in the family budget. That’s where Sweet Blessings comes in. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, volunteer chefs get together [...]
Guest Voz — 150+ Cities Pledge to Help More Children Master Reading
LatinaLista — Mastering literacy is more than just being able to read words in a book. It also means the reader is learning to comprehend what is being read. When anyone, a child or an adult, has that skill the world is the limit. Anecdotal stories of kids who drop out of school almost always [...]
Bilingual Halloween cards remind Congress that cutting early childhood ed programs creates a scary future
LatinaLista — There’s probably no other day in the year that is so totally devoted to children or the “inner child” than Halloween. It’s the one day, that no matter the age, people dress up in costume. For adults, dressing up means letting loose and having fun. For kids, it can be something totally different. [...]
It doesn’t pay for teachers to teach Latino and black children — literally!
LatinaLista — It just doesn’t pay for teachers to teach Latino or black children — literally! A report issued last month from the Department of Education highlighted the fact that teachers at schools with more Latino and African American students were paid $2,500 less on average than teachers in the district as a whole. The [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Helping kids cope with divorce
LatinaLista — Family separation caused by parents divorcing are usually the hardest on children. Sometimes separation within a family leads a child to act out their frustration, anger and loneliness in ways that aren’t always appropriate behavior. Yet the remaining adult in the household is barely equipped to handle the change in the family, let [...]
First-of-its-kind Halloween safety report shows twice as many kids killed walking on Halloween than any other night of the year
LatinaLista — Halloween is only 11 days away and as any kid knows it’s much more than just dressing up in costume — it’s all about the trick-or-treating! Unfortunately, it’s reported that Halloween is a deadly time for trick-or-treaters. Twice as many child pedestrians are killed from 4-10 p.m. while walking on Halloween compared to [...]
Program “tutors” students to achieve their all in both business and school
LatinaLista – Students helping one another learn isn’t such a revolutionary idea. Yet, students helping one another learn while getting paid just might be an idea that helps reform education in ways no one imagined. Students Connecting matches student tutors with students who not only need help in a particular subject area — but even in [...]
New report on disparities in student discipline shows there’s no justice for minority and disabled students
LatinaLista – “Does a policy of kicking “bad kids” out of school so “good kids” can learn really work?” That’s the premise of a new report released today titled Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice. The report, authored by Daniel J. Losen, director of the new Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights [...]
