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Guest Voz: Poverty and the perception of poverty – how both matter for schooling outcomes

Jul 24, 2014, 3:12 PM 0

By Andreas Schleicher LatinaLista Compensating for students’ socio-economic disadvantage is one of the greatest challenges facing teachers,school leaders and education systems as a whole. However, data from PISA show that some countries are much better at this than others….

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Guest Voz: Why the EPA carbon standards are important for Latinos

Jul 21, 2014, 1:04 PM 0

By Nicole Hernández Hammer LatinaLista The summer is well underway and many of us are taking family trips or finding ways to bridge the school break with activities that keep kids having fun outdoors while we parents are working….

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Guest Voz: Regardless of citizenship status, immigrants make positive contributions to the country

Jul 18, 2014, 8:05 AM 0

By Edward T. Rincón, Ph.D. LatinaLista We produced the attached map and assembled the following facts (source: American Community Survey 5-year estimates covering 2008-2012) to provide some balance to the wave of bad news surrounding immigrants. While it does…

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Guest Voz: Latino Families Deserve a Much More Humanitarian Solution

Jul 2, 2014, 12:00 AM 0

By Katherine Culliton González LatinaLista During the past few weeks, the President finally called the increase in Central American children crossing the border alone, fleeing violence and poverty, “an urgent humanitarian crisis;” yet one of the root causes is…

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Guest Voz: Priest shares insights of visit with Central American migrant children transferred to AZ border patrol station

Jun 12, 2014, 2:02 PM 0

LatinaLista Editor’s Note: Fr. Sean Carroll is the executive director of the Nogales, AZ-based Kino Border Initiative, a binational apostolic initiative and migration advocacy organization with offices in both Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. This week, Fr. Sean…

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Guest Voz: Survey industry behind the times in how to ask and get needed information from today’s diverse population

May 23, 2014, 11:36 AM 0

By Edward T. Rincón, Ph.D. LatinaLista It is a common situation faced by healthcare providers today. A patient, unable to communicate well in English, arrives for treatment and often waits longer than other patients to receive treatment, may not…

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Student Guest Voz: Hispanics – The Forgotten Class in Civil Rights History

May 20, 2014, 2:25 PM 0

LatinaLista — Nicholas D. Dauphine, a senior at Johnson High School in Austin, Texas won first place in the LBJ Library “Civil Rights Today” Essay Contest. Dauphine was honored on April 8 at the LBJ Civil Rights Summit awards…

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Guest Voz: Vaccinating on time is more important than ever for disease protection

Apr 28, 2014, 9:40 AM 0

By Anna Acosta, MD LatinaLista Most parents agree that feeding and sleep schedules are important to help keep their young babies healthy. The same goes for childhood immunizations. Vaccinating children on time is the best way to protect them…

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Guest Voz: Critics and filmmakers miss the point in retelling Cesar Chavez’s story

Apr 25, 2014, 2:39 PM 0

By Herman Baca LatinaLista After viewing the movie, “Cesar Chavez: An American Hero,” and reading reviews about it, many have asked me; what I thought about the movie? First, some of the reviews already written about the movie are…

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Guest Voz: The Benefits of Increasing the Minimum Wage for People of Color

Apr 22, 2014, 4:05 PM 0

By Vanessa Cárdenas LatinaLista How much does a full-time worker earning the current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour make in one year? This worker earns only $15,080, which is $4,000 below the federal poverty line for a family…

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Guest Voz: Civil Rights Amendment Should Ensure Health Security for Hispanic Americans

Apr 21, 2014, 12:00 AM 0

By Jacqueline Angel LatinaLista The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act serves as a reminder that politics and history shape the nation’s health care delivery system. Our forefathers wrote that “all men are created equal, that they are…

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Guest Voz: Prevention is the best prescription to fighting cancer

Apr 17, 2014, 2:46 PM 0

By TX State Rep. Ruth McClendon Jones LatinaLista Cancer. The Big C. For anyone who has heard this chilling diagnosis from your doctor, my heart goes out to you. I have been there. The Big C is also The…

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Guest Voz: World War II generation of Mexican-Americans made huge strides in civil rights movement

Apr 11, 2014, 1:29 PM 0

By Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez LatinaLista For the Mexican-American World War II generation, the call for action arrived at different times: In Corpus Christi, physician Hector P. Garcia, recovering from a serious kidney ailment in 1947, listened to Spanish-language radio as…

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Guest Voz: My claim to a hyphenated identity

Apr 4, 2014, 12:47 AM 0

By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen ‘Where are you from?’ That is a simple question, isn’t it? Well for some of us, the answer is not so straight forward. My experience in London in the past four months has included…

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Guest Voz: Fasts Across the Country for Immigration Reform: Will You Join Us?

Apr 2, 2014, 1:24 PM 0

By Elisa Batista MomsRising.org Considering that three-quarters of immigrants to the United States are women and children, more than 1,200 women from 70 organizations are fasting in 35 states for immigration reform that keeps families together and treats women…

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Guest Voz: House Democrats’ filing of discharge petition to force immigration vote is nada más than politics

Mar 27, 2014, 10:56 AM 0

By María Gabriela “Gaby” Pacheco LatinaLista Discharge Petition — A procedural tactic that allows an absolute majority of the House of Representatives (218 lawmakers) to force a floor vote on a bill, even if leaders who control the House…

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Guest Voz: Heroes is spelled Heroes in Spanish, too

Mar 19, 2014, 10:03 AM 0

By Raoul Lowery Contreras LatinaLista President Barack Obama awarded 23 Medals of Honor yesterday in the White House to WWII, Korea and Vietnam War Army U.S fighting men who were victims of army bigotry. When their own officers submitted…

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Guest Voz: Latino & African American students more isolated in schools today than in the past

Mar 14, 2014, 12:36 PM 0

By Gary Orfield, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and John Kucsera LatinaLista (LL Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a longer study by researchers at The Civil Rights Project analyzing the trends in current school segregation. The study was written…

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Guest Voz: No More Time to Delay: It’s Time for Latinos to Sign Up for the Affordable Care Act

Mar 10, 2014, 10:39 AM 0

By Vanessa Cárdenas LatinaLista Last week, President Obama held a historic town hall hosted by the leading Spanish language outlets – Univision, impreMedia and Telemundo – to impress upon the Latino community the importance of enrolling for healthcare ahead…

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Guest Voz: 6 Steps The President And Congress Can Take To Help Young Men Of Color

Mar 6, 2014, 4:48 PM 0

By Vanessa Cárdenas LatinaLista President Obama recently launched “My Brother’s Keeper,” an initiative that aims to address the profound challenges young men of color face. A long overdue and sorely needed endeavor, the President is using his bully pulpit…

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Guest Voz: If Immigration Reform Ever Passes, It Will Fail (Again)

Feb 18, 2014, 10:52 AM 0

By David Swaim LatinaLista As we watch the Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to dither over immigration reform, and anti-immigration and pro-immigration groups continue the culture war over this issue, it is important to realize the issues…

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Guest Voz: Oklahoma Latinos setting the record straight after outrageous local news reporting says undocumented immigrants work for Mexican cartels

Feb 14, 2014, 3:25 PM 0

By Juan Miret LatinaLista On February 3, 2014, two CBS stations and affiliates in Oklahoma – News on 6 in Tulsa and News on 9 in Oklahoma City – aired a story connecting the increase of the undocumented population…

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Guest Voz: How one film’s international win shines hope in a country feeling hopeless

Feb 10, 2014, 3:32 PM 0

By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — For Venezuelans, going to the movies is now as much a source of national pride as international Venezuelan beauty queens or baseball. The reason is because of the film Azul y no Tan…

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Guest Voz: For American Farmworkers, ‘Guest Workers’ Proposal is Not Immigration Reform

Feb 6, 2014, 11:32 AM 0

By Michael G. Harpold Latina Lista In the State of the Union speech, President Obama said, “Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.” Who would disagree, I…

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Guest Voz: Reforming education leads to narrowing disparities and achievement gap

Jan 28, 2014, 12:08 PM 0

By Yvette Donado LatinaLista (Editor’s note: The following is the opening address by Yvette Donado, chief administrative officer and senior vice president of nonprofit Educational Testing Service (ETS), at the National Urban Fellows 45th anniversary conference.) …Leadership for a…

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