By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — Experts at a recent educational forum agreed that Latino students in the San Diego Unified School District are trailing behind their White counterparts. The forum, which took place at the Jacobs Center on Saturday, May 14, highlighted several key academic areas where Latino students [...]
New interactive tool shows which country offers a better life
LatinaLista — With all the griping that we may do about life in the United States, a new tool developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows exactly how the U.S. measures up to other developed nations — and how they measure up compared to the U.S. The Your Better Life Index [...]
Bolivia: Teaching children to move beyond asking to be pitied towards showing compassion
By Angie Washington Latina Lista COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Pity is the lazy cousin of compassion. A small girl sits on a swing. Not a week has passed since she was removed from an abusive situation and put in the orphanage. Her feet are covered in sores. She must be carried from place to place. One [...]
Mexican education campaign reaches out to Mexican-Americans and migrants for help
LatinaLista — The United States isn’t the only country that has problems with its teachers’ unions. In Mexico, the national teachers’ union — The National Syndicate of Educational Workers — has garnered so much power over the years that a new national campaign to improve the country’s educational policies is calling the union out on [...]
The mobile digital divide shrinks for Latinos
LatinaLista — Recent studies suggest that Latinos are still on the wrong side of the digital divide with less home access to the internet, but a new report released today by The Hispanic Institute reveals that Latinos more than make up for it with their cell phones. The study, Connected Hispanics and Civic Engagement, found [...]
New sleep study finds too many urban Latino students suffer from sleep problems
LatinaLista — Latino urban students have a host of challenges that keep them from doing well in school but thanks to a new study there may be one underlying root cause for not doing well — sleep. Actually, come to find out, thanks to a new study, it’s the lack of sleep that affects more [...]
