By Aaron Khpchik Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange A growing body of research, including work published here, documents harms of what is known as the school-to-prison pipeline. Evidence shows that compared to 20 or more years ago, contemporary…
By Erik De La Cruz LatinaLista I blankly stared at my computer with San Diego State University’s homepage open. I hesitated to click into the admission status. I breathed deeply. My education’s fate awaited me after the click. Denied….
A report brief by OECD, SEP and INEE revealed that intimidation or verbal abuse (bullying) among students is more prevalent in Mexico than among the 34 countries assessed.
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mañiuco School A group of Fellows from the Melton Foundation who have been working with the Mañiuco School since 2011. Mañiuco School in southern Chile is exclusively Mapuche (Indigenous peoples from the Araucanía Region) and students…
By Andrea Valencia Mission Local On her first day of classes at San Francisco International High School, Jennifer Chavac, an 11th grader, was busy. This is her third year at this school and she’s proven to be a dedicated…
LatinaLista — Though the issue of immigration has sporadically dominated the headlines over the last few years, there’s still a segment of the population for whom the issue doesn’t mean a whole lot — children. Unless a child has…
LatinaLista — Being a teen — stuck in those in-between years when you’re not really an adult but sure don’t feel like a kid — is harder than ever. It used to be that anyone over the age of…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The urgent need to increase the number of young people pursuing degrees in STEM areas–science, technology, engineering and math–is a hot topic in education circles. Especially during the current economic slump, having…
La Voz de Austin AUSTIN — Since his arrival in Austin almost a year ago from Denver, Colorado, Alex Sanchez, the Director of Public Relations & Multicultural Outreach for the Austin Independent School District, has been working quickly to…
LatinaLista — Summer break is only a few weeks away for most school children in the U.S. and while it’s the time of year every kid looks forward to, summer always brings mixed feelings from adults. For example, though…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The achievement gap between Latino and white eighth-graders in science is narrowing, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data released on Thursday. Between 2009 and 2011, average science scores among…
By Ray Ruiz The Venture HOUSTON — At a meeting in April, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board decided to merge the exemplary-rated Kaleidoscope Charter School with Jane Long Middle School by a vote of 6-3. Kaleidoscope has…
LatinaLista — When it comes to keeping kids in school and actually thinking of college as being a future possibility for them, one would think that all the adults would be on board with that. Yet, an interesting article…
LatinaLista — Before and since Obama was elected president, there have been rumblings that blacks and Latinos don’t get along. Usually, the ones who talked about such a rift were the old-timers who had lived in those turbulent times…
