By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat Michele Siqueiros recalled the day she arrived on a college campus. “I thought I had arrived on another planet,” she told a recent gathering of journalists who attended the Education Writers Association’s fourth…
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Higher unemployment risk after growing up in tough area
Nov 9, 2017, 11:45 AM 0
By Rebecca Valli Futurity The neighborhood in which children grow up can have an impact on their economic well-being into adulthood, a new study indicates. The research suggests that children who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods at any point up…
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Latino elites are paying the California dream forward
Nov 8, 2017, 11:56 AM 0
By Jody Agius Vallejo The Conversation American Latino economic elites have incomes and wealth in the top five percent of earners. Some own multi-million-dollar companies or work as corporate executives. Latino politicians – like Kevin De León, who is…
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Arts Seen As Crucial to Healing Youth, Changing the Juvenile Justice System
Nov 2, 2017, 10:10 AM 0
By Rachel Symons Juvenile Justice Information Exchange LOS ANGELES — For Jordan, growing up in Jamaica, Queens in New York City left much to be desired. One of the few places he could go after school were the youth…
By Julie Robert Futurity Researchers have created a website to ease the transition to fatherhood. Expectant and new parents look to the internet for parenting prep, but dads don’t always find the information they say they need about pregnancy,…
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Study: 1 in 4 Latino Kids Have an Undocumented Immigrant Parent
Oct 30, 2017, 10:52 AM 0
By Eric Moreno Salud America Nearly 94% of the 18 million Latino kids living in the United States today were born here. Their moms and dads are a different story. About half of Latino kids have at least one…
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Why Puerto Rico ‘doesn’t count’ to the US government
Oct 26, 2017, 8:47 AM 0
By Jay L. Zagorsky The Conversation Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, destroying homes, crops and communications. Many weeks later, power has been restored to fewer than 20 percent of homes. A third of the population…
By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force Just as the tobacco companies worked to brand cigarettes as harmless, the coal industry has pushed to convince the public that their product is safe for the environment. The phrase “clean…
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How U.S. and Salvadoran politicians alike use Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as a political tool
Oct 24, 2017, 10:26 AM 0
By Cristian Izquierdo NACLA Less than four months into Trump’s presidency, the administration began its attacks on Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a long-standing program created as part of the 1990 Immigration Act that protects otherwise undocumented immigrants from being…
By Amy McCaig Futurity Real estate agents in New York tend to work in white and Asian neighborhoods, in addition to neighborhoods with higher home values, according to new research. The researchers used data from the 2014 American Community…
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Is racial bias driving Trump’s neglect of Puerto Rico?
Oct 19, 2017, 9:54 AM 0
By Lauren Lluveras The Conversation The morning after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, I emailed my aunt to ask if she was safe. That was Sept. 21. I heard back from her on Oct. 10. She was fine,…
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State Trends Show Fewer Young People Tried As Adults, New Report Says
Oct 18, 2017, 10:36 AM 0
By Bill Myers Juvenile Justice Information Exchange The number of young people locked into adult jails and prisons has plummeted nearly two-thirds since 2009 and the number automatically sent to adult courts for criminal trials has fallen by…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos both say they want to expand school choice, including with public funding for private schools. Recently, two parent activists on the front lines…
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An Iconic San Diego Park Is Now a National Historic Landmark
Oct 12, 2017, 11:50 AM 0
By Lauren Walser Saving Places Josephine Talamantez remembers the day she and many of her neighbors in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood were nearly arrested: April 22, 1970, the official launching of Earth Day as a national holiday. “And…
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The Women of Color ‘Solutionaries’ Who Are Taking On Detroit’s Deep Divisions
Oct 11, 2017, 9:16 AM 0
By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org A new report uses photography and interviews to raise the profile of 20 Black, Latina, Arab, and Asian women who should have a greater say in the city’s revitalization. “Nobody asked us if we wanted…
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For marginalized teens, activism may lead to better jobs
Oct 10, 2017, 9:59 AM 0
By Laurel Thomas Gnagey Futurity Social action and engagement may help marginalized teens in their careers later in life, particularly if teachers help them discuss and engage with social issues, new research suggests. At a time when race and…
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Indigenous people invented the so-called ‘American Dream’
Oct 9, 2017, 9:41 AM 0
By Lewis Borck & D. Shane Miller The Conversation When President Barack Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program that offered undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children a path into society, for…
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New Science Standards Aim to Boost Latinos’ Interest, Test Scores
Oct 5, 2017, 8:34 AM 0
By Eric Moreno SaludToday California is implementing new standards for teaching science to spark Latinos and African American grade-school students’ interest and boost test scores, EdSourcereports. The new standards have more hands-on science projects, updated scientific and technological research,…
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Trump Urged to Renew Advisory Panel on Improving Education for Hispanics
Oct 4, 2017, 9:32 AM 0
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat For nearly three decades, a White House commission created to help boost Hispanic student achievement, has advised four presidents and their secretaries of education. The advisory panel, however, is set to expire on…
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How US gun control compares to the rest of the world
Oct 3, 2017, 11:27 AM 0
By John Donohue The Conversation The shooting in Virginia that wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, as well as the shooting in a San Francisco UPS facility that left four dead on the very same day, have generated –…
By Katy Farber Moms Clean Air Force What your child learns about climate change at school depends on where you live. PreK-12 science standards are, in large measure, decided at the state level. That means what your child learns…
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Teachers report weaker bonds with students of color
Sep 28, 2017, 12:29 PM 0
By Rachel Harrison Futurity Teachers say that they have weaker relationships with children of immigrants and teens of color, a new study has found. “Teachers’ relationships are hugely important for all students, but particularly so for groups that are…
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Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy will make hurricane recovery brutal – here’s why
Sep 26, 2017, 10:06 AM 0
By Lauren Lluveras The Conversation The United States had already seen its share of disasters, from back-to-back hurricanes that devastated Texas, Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islandsto roaring wildfires in the West. Then, after battering the rest of the…
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Untrained Police Officers in Schools Focus on Girls of Color, Report Says
Sep 25, 2017, 10:34 AM 0
By Bill Myers Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Black girls are nearly four times more likely to be arrested at school than their white counterparts and Latina girls are almost three times more likely to be arrested in elementary school…
By Jennifer Langston Futurity People of color are exposed to more pollution from cars, trucks, and power plants than whites, a new 10-year study shows. Researchers estimated exposure to outdoor concentrations of a transportation-related pollutant—nitrogen dioxide (NO2)— in both…
