By Rachel NerdScholar NerdScholar’s scholarship study highlights the best time to apply and state and scholarship requirements that give the best advantages. It is well known that the price tag on an education is only increasing. As of last…
by Eduardo Ares Polis The city of Pontevedra in northwest Spain has become a leader in walker-friendly urban policy over the past 15 years. In light of its relative anonymity and population of 83,000, one might find it difficult…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat At one Arizona elementary school, parents are participating in a dual-language program of sorts. Language differences can be a barrier from immigrant Hispanic parents feeling welcome at their children’s schools. But Fox…
By Nina Lindsay CBC Diversity (Editor’s Note: The following is part of a CBC Diversity series of guest posts marketing and sales of children’s books.) I have little patience for: “brown people on covers don’t sell books.” My library’s…
SaludToday Hispanic and black high-school students suffer a higher prevalence of dating violence. In honor of February being National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we urge you to check out a new video from Start Strong: Building…
By Ronnie Citron-Fink Moms Clean Air Force Forward On Climate Rally ~ Parents, Kids: March With Us Forward On Climate Rally, the largest climate rally in American history, is on Sunday, February 17. Moms Clean Air Force, Climate Parents…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired A study from the National Center for Educational Statistics recently looked at the educational attainment of Latino and Asian immigrants, and undergraduates who had immigrant parents. The study compiled data from the 2007-2008…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Tucson Unified School District to offer “culturally relevant” courses that reflect the lives and history of Latino and black students. The ruling is part of…
By Susan Orosco 8 Ways to Say I Love My Life Everybody is entitled to realize their dreams. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. But don’t make the mistake of thinking the Law of Attraction is…
By Antonio Gonzalez CBC Diversity Elementary-school-teacher-turned-writer and California native, Malín Alegría (Estrella’s Quinceañera), answers a few questions about her new teen series Border Town (Scholastic/Point), her struggles with self-image, puffy Princess dresses, and growing-up bicultural. Can you describe your…
By Laura Pereyra NerdScholar NerdScholar analyzes the best and worst women’s jobs for fair pay in light of the Lily Ledbetter Act Anniversary The anniversary of the Lily Ledbetter Act, legislation that changed the law to promote equal pay,…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The National Center for Education Statistics has released a new report showing a huge increase in Latino high school graduation rates. The rate increased to 71.4% in 2010, up from 61.4% in…
By Gina Carroll Mom’s Clean Air Force Environmental issues such as air pollution and climate change are like thieves in the night for communities of color. They are insidious offenders that relentlessly and devastatingly steal the health and vitality…
By Marion Nestle Food Politics For my monthly Food Matters column in the San Francisco Chronicle, I devote the one in January every year to predictions. Last year I got them all pretty much on target. It didn’t take…
By Laura Pereyra NerdScholar Initiatives like the Intellectual Entrepreneurship experience at UT Austin help students capitalize on their passions via self-exploration, exposure to diverse disciplines, and graduate work The public dialogue surrounding whether a college education is worth the…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired The Next Web had a really interesting list of top Latin American startups to watch in 2013. They created the list not based on monetary concerns, necessarily, but noted that most of them…
SaludToday Gabriel, a part-time student with no insurance, is an acute myeloid leukemia survivor. But he hadn’t had any checkups for nearly three years. Then he found LIVESTRONG cancer services, which help the uninsured with accessing medical treatments and…
By Antonio Gonzalez CBC Diversity Every year, various publications and organizations will post their “Best of” lists and editor’s choice round-ups. Here are a few diversity titles that we spotted among the crème de la crème. Young Adult ARISTOTLE…
By Dorrissa Griffin and Maurita Coley Broadband & Social Justice Building on her public support first announced in September, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn has stood up to champion the end of grossly excessive prison phone rates. At a November…
By Juan Miret A Hispanic Matter Hispanics observe the nine days between December 16 and 24 with parties, singing, praying, piñatas, carols, scooters, punch, sparklers and many more symbols. That is how they celebrate and remembers the pilgrimage of…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat A new study finds that American teens are finding it increasingly difficult to find work—creating a generation of disconnected youth. The Annie E. Foundation estimates that almost 6.5 million teens are out…
by Susan Orosco 8 Ways to Say I Love My Life Practicing the Law of Attraction can sometimes be frustrating. Too often the process produces the opposite of what we want. I often wonder if one of the reasons…
By Dustin Mendus Más Wired Mexican immigrants were the biggest immigrant group, but Indian immigrants tended to found startups at higher rates. The Kauffman Foundation has released a new publication focusing on immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States. This…
SaludToday Having a colonoscopy might be pretty low on Latino adults’ to-do lists. Even hearing the term “colonoscopy” might make some people a bit squeamish. But it can also save your life. Just take it from Armida Flores, a…
By David Honig Broadband & Social Justice For decades, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) supported the Federal Communications Commission’s prohibition on a company owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city….
