By Gerardo Ceballos The Conversation Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s. Commanding 10,000 people, he was in charge of exploring the vast lands of Siberia and the unknown sea…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat More Latinos are earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields; yet more are needed, a new report by Excelencia in Education claims. According to the study, “Finding Your Workforce: Latinos in…
SaludToday Children with Medicaid and minorities were more likely to ride a bike without a helmet than children with private insurance or white, according to a new study, Reuters reports. Researchers looked at over 7,000 bike accidents involving kids…
By Daniel Ward Language Magazine Use of the Spanish language has been growing steadily since the 16th century, but has suddenly accelerated over the last century — in the late 19th century, there were some 60 million Spanish speakers,…
By Anita Kar Futurity A new study suggests a part of the brain called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (LOFC) helps us make choices when we have to combine different sources of data, such when we vote. In addition, researchers…
By Marcia G. Yerman Mom’s Clean Air Force There has been substantial recognition given to the impact of indoor air pollution on children in schools and in their family homes. However, there is another demographic at high risk —…
By Brianna McGurran Nerd Scholar Volunteering in high school and college is fun, fulfilling and an easy way to make new friends with similar interests. Plus, there can be a major bonus to giving back to your community: scholarship…
By Elizabeth Hillaker Downs Futurity What does diabetes look like to the thousands of children affected by it each year? To find out, researchers gave adolescents disposable cameras and asked to take pictures of what the disease means to…
Latinas Represent Regina Monge is an elected official, and she’s still in college. In the interview above, listen to LatinasRepresent Intern Nicole Castillo interview Monge about her decision to run for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) in DC. Regina…
By Shaina Semiatin Cultural Survival One hundred miles southeast of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, on a plot of roughly 1,400 square miles, lays the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Home to 20,000 Sicangu (“Burnt Thigh”) Lakota people, the plot…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired We had a chance to catch up with the CFO of Yondster, Joe S. Garcia recently and asked him a few questions. Yondster is: an employment tech website with a splash of social…
Language Magazine Pilar Alvarez, education director at the Young Storytellers Foundation, explains how the organization boosts literary confidence. Language Magazine: What is the history and overall goal of the Young Storytellers Foundation? Pilar Alvarez: The Young Storytellers Foundation was…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Protesters at the University of Northern Colorado argue it shouldn’t matter whether the temporarily suspended Mexican-American studies program only had two students in it. The university stopped accepting applications for the program in…
By Jann Ingmire Futurity Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study finds. Effective communication requires the ability to take others’ perspectives. Researchers discovered that children from multilingual environments are…
Preservation Nation Successful tactical urbanism projects around the U.S. — from parklets to pop-up shops — show that sometimes all it takes to bring a community together is a simple, accessible project. That’s why this month, the National Trust…
Feet In Two Worlds The DREAMer movement is in flux. Once monolithic, political activism by young, undocumented immigrants has become fragmented, with some activists abandoning the fight for comprehensive immigration reform, and others focused on local efforts to support…
SaludToday Did you know 11% of U.S. Latino kids face adverse childhood experiences? These traumatic events include sexual or physical abuse, domestic violence, poverty and the sudden loss of a parent. A new infographic by the Robert Wood Johnson…
CBC Diversity In honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10, the last day of Children’s Book Week 2015, the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is partnering with The unPrison Project — a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering and mentoring…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Operation Code is a Portland, Oregon-based organization working to enable more veterans to learn to code and work in the tech industry. The organization is the brainchild of veteran David Molina, who is…
By Moms Clean Air Force This was written by Joe Romm for ClimateProgress: This may turn out to be one of the most important years in world history. The leading nations of the world are finally making serious pledges…
By Bess Connolly Martell Futurity Researchers are working to document sentences like “Here’s you a piece of pizza.” Though it sounds totally normal to some English speakers in the United States, it strikes others as totally bizarre. The Yale…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat “I don’t see color” isn’t always a good approach to addressing race — at least according to a report released this week by the Center for Collaborative Education and the Annenberg Institute that…
SaludToday Access to health care after the Affordable Care Act is improving among all racial/ethnic groups, especially Hispanics, but more work remains, according to a new report. According to the report, the 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report,…
By Gary Gately Juvenile Justice Information Exchange WASHINGTON – More than half of U.S. states allow children to be detained for repeated nonviolent “status offenses” such as skipping school, running away from home or possession of alcohol, a new…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Olenka and Adam Polak grew up in a Polish-speaking household in Greenwich, Connecticut didn’t set out to be entrepreneurs. But an unpleasant moviegoing experience with their Polish cousins led them to create myLINGO,…
