Category: Children
Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving kids the keys to tune up their lives
LatinaLista — What do old pianos have to do with helping kids? A lot, if those pianos are donated to Keys 4/4 Kids (K4K). The premise is simple: Send out a call to the community for old pianos to donate to K4K. Workers from the non-profit pick up the piano, tune it and clean it [...]
Latino coach says culture holds back US youth from international soccer championships
LatinaLista — It’s estimated that over 18 million people in the United States play soccer, 78 percent of which are under the age of 18. While the sport, better known as “futbol” or “football” in the rest of the world, is steadily gaining in popularity in the US — after all, who wasn’t watching or [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Connecting children with healthy eating in “bite-sized” lessons
LatinaLista — There are two parts of the battle against childhood obesity — teaching children and their families which foods are healthy to eat and how to cook healthy foods. It’s the second part that is proving more difficult in slimming waistlines. Most people have a pretty good idea which foods aren’t high in sugar, [...]
After fourth grade, Latino students show no progress in learning geography
LatinaLista — If there’s one single bit of news to cheer about regarding today’s release of The Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2010 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), it’s that fourth graders still love to learn. In fact, it’s only among fourth graders where the achievement gap has been narrowed among black, Latino [...]
International report examines how some students are “discarded” by school systems
LatinaLista — There’s long been debate in the United States over whether or not retaining a child in a particular grade was a good or bad thing. Yet, no one ever addresses if transferring students, labeled “troublemakers,” to alternative schools is good or bad. The idea that getting troublemakers out of the classroom so “real [...]
Texas suspends/expels 60 percent of middle and high school students, majority being black and Latino
LatinaLista — Today’s release of the Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2010 showed that 12th graders not only had the least improvement in geography scores but the percentage of students at or above Proficient was lower in 2010 than in earlier assessment years. The reasons for the high school seniors doing badly ranges from bad teaching [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Former foster care child empowers children with “Foster Skills”
LatinaLista — A study by the University of Chicago found that less than ten percent of children who go through the foster care system ever graduate from college. One of the lucky ones is Marquis Cabrera. Abandoned as an infant and spending most of his youth in foster care until he was adopted, Cabrera went [...]
Adoption agency gives Latina, black and Native American birthmothers a voice in finding adoptive parents
LatinaLista — When it comes to transracial adopting — when an adopted child is of a different race/ethnicity from the adoptive parents — a loving home outweighs any other concern for what is best for the child. Yet, it makes sense that, if possible, a child should be placed with a family that shares a [...]
Guest Voz: Latino families need more choices of learning programs to see their children succeed in school
LatinaLista – Latino youth are not living up to their academic potential. It’s an undeniable fact and a bold statement. But it doesn’t just place the blame on Latino families, like a recent speech by the President and CEO of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank; it also acknowledges the two-way street that exists when educating any [...]
Cost analysis shows why it’s important Congress doesn’t cut programs aimed to reduce teen pregnancies
LatinaLista — Having a baby is expensive. A teen mom having a baby is expensive not only for the family but for the state as well. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released a new analysis of the public costs of teen childbearing at both the national and state level. Counting It [...]
