Category: Youth
ACT report shows Latino students want to academically succeed but face challenges out of their control
LatinaLista — It’s one thing for adults to stress the importance of education to young people but quite another when students realize it for themselves — and it seems Latino students are slowly but surely getting that message. In their yearly report The Condition of College and Career Readiness 2011 released today by ACT, the [...]
One Latina’s mission to make science and math careers “cool” to young Latinos
By Cheryl Aguilar LatinaLista Dr. Alicia Abella works tirelessly to interest the next generation of Latino students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers and create a new future for themselves. Exposing students to role models is essential to encouraging and inspiring them, particularly to join fields not considered traditional or “cool.” Math and [...]
Guest Voz: DREAM Act a Win-Win — Good for Immigrant Women and Families and Good for Economy
LatinaLista — The battle to get Congress to pass the DREAM Act has been going on for ten years this month. It’s surprising that legislation that is such a no-brainer would be challenged every step of the way. Yet, it’s not surprising when, on closer examination, we see that it’s not the merits of the [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Making philanthropy relevant to students
LatinaLista — One criticism of today’s young people is that, with all their extra-curricular activities, technology that absorbs their attention from mobile phones to Wii and their time spent with social media, they don’t think enough about “giving back” to their local communities. One organization in Ohio wants to change that. UGive.org wants to make [...]
Teaching teens that digital dating abuse is “not cool”
LatinaLista — A teenager’s life has always been tough. There have always been bullies, “mean girls,” that one special guy or girl that gave you butterflies in your stomach, and for some teen girls that one guy who professed his love like Romeo but acted more like Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. But what has [...]
Dept. of Homeland Security risks losing more credibility among Latinos if Marcelo Llamas is deported
LatinaLista — One of the selling points of the DREAM Act — the bill that sets young undocumented people on a path to citizenship after meeting a laundry list of criteria — is the point that the ones who qualify have to be a person of strong moral character. Marcelo Castañeda Llamas fits that definition. [...]
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 [...]
DREAM Act Sabbath
MetroLatinoUSA WASHINGTON, DC — Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and more than a dozen religious leaders representing a broad variety of faith traditions, today announced a DREAM Act Sabbath – an initiative enlisting churches, synagogues, and mosques around the country to dedicate time during their regular weekly worship service [...]
Study finds Latino youth of immigrant parents taking lead roles in a civic conscious generation
LatinaLista — The reference to “youth being the future” has been said so often it’s been drilled down to a cliche that elicits little to no response these days. Yet, unlike past eras, the truth of the statement is far more relevant and immediate when it’s realized that the future is now and youth are [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving hope to Latinos who want to go to college
LatinaLista — The word “esperanza” means hope in Spanish. Today, in this troubling economy, it’s hard for people to have hope if they don’t have good job prospects. And to get a good job, one needs an education. Unfortunately, too many Latino families live paycheck to paycheck. The notion of paying an ever increasing college [...]
