Category: Youth
New student report shows amount of college debt depends on the college and geography
LatinaLista — These days, many Latino college students and their families are wondering if a college degree is worth all the dinero. The short answer is — Yes! Looking at the breakdown of the unemployed, the website, Department of Numbers, shows that those with a Bachelor’s degree or higher have the lowest rates of unemployment. [...]
Guest Voz: Helping Latino parents develop strategies to talk to their kids about sex
LatinaLista — The issue of Latina teen pregnancy is not new. Yet, it is something that is getting renewed attention because of several consequences of teen pregnancy: teens tend to drop out of school; they hold down menial jobs and, on average, the children of teen parents don’t fare any better than their parents. More [...]
New site turns applying to college into a game
LatinaLista — Though it may seem that school just barely started, for many high school juniors and seniors it’s the time of year to start thinking about college. For low-income students, the idea of going to college can be overwhelming — for both students and their parents. That’s why the University of Southern California created [...]
New research shows Latino Millennials are more old-fashioned in morals and attitudes than peers
LatinaLista — What do young Latino adults really want out of life and who are they? It’s a question that takes center stage in a new study published by Tr3s: MTV, Música y Más cable channel titled Death of the Hispanic Adult Demo as We Know It. According to census findings, US-born Hispanics now dominate [...]
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 [...]
New poll shows Latino parents still hesitant to have “THE sex talk” with their kids
LatinaLista — A new poll released by New York University’s Silver School of Social Work’s Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) and Planned Parenthood shows that 82 percent of parents are having a “sex talk” with their children. The problem is most of them are not having “THE sex talk.” The poll of [...]
Latino students have lowest college completion rates in the nation
LatinaLista – In 2008, the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education got together to review the educational status of Americans. What the commission saw disturbed them. The US was falling behind other industrialized nations in the number of adults who had post-secondary degrees; more students were dropping out of high school and college [...]
Oral Roberts University to host conference for at-risk Hispanic youth
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa TULSA, Oklahoma — Two dates. Two groups. Six hundred participants. One auditorium. That’s how Deborah Easter describes the two education and business conferences that are scheduled for Nov. 1 and 3 at Oral Roberts University for Hispanic youth at high risk of dropping out of school. Easter, who chairs [...]
New study shows youth gun violence among at-risk Latinos and blacks is all too common and “easy”
LatinaLista — According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, California ranks as the top state in the nation with the “strongest gun laws that help combat the illegal gun market, prevent the sale of guns without background checks and reduce risks to children.” Yet, a new report on youth gun violence released this [...]
