Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Mathematics is called the universal language. According to the website, Omniglot: There is no universal language we can talk with one another for everyone to understand, however, there is a universal language we can all quantify…
LatinaLista — In the hours after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, it was obvious, to those islanders accustomed to weathering tropical storms, that this was no ordinary hurricane. In the days and weeks that followed, as federal relief…
LatinaLista — About 1 in 3 black and Hispanic students in the state now attend a school where more than 90 percent of the students are not white, and on average, they attend schools with one and a half…
LatinaLista — By all benchmarks, public school attendance is at an all-time high and forecast to increase. In most major cities across the country, public school classrooms are filled with more students of color than white students. The diversity…
LatinaLista — In 2013, when Pew Research surveyed how many Americans invest in the stock market, they discovered a telling fact — 81 percent of Latinos don’t own stock. But it doesn’t stop at stocks. Latinos are the first…
LatinaLista — Two headlines that have dominated the news in the last few months when it comes to our public schools are: Latino and Black children are now the “majority-minority” and students of color are among those targeted for…
LatinaLista — In a follow-up to yesterday’s post Texas Latino school children just got the biggest slap down from the one state agency supposed to be their strongest advocate, LatinaLista was made aware of a petition started at Change.org,…
LatinaLista — Demographers have long said to just look at Texas to see the future of the racial make-up of the country. It’s projected that by 2020 the Latino population will surpass all other population groups in Texas to…
LatinaLista — Mauricio Muñoz thought he had his life perfectly scripted out. He just didn’t realize it was only the first draft. The middle son of a Colombiana and Chileno, 33-year-old Mauricio Muñoz grew up in Northern Westchester, New…
LatinaLista — It’s known as High Technology Day and it’s a way for AT&T and members of its Latino employee resource group known as HACEMOS to help promote interest in STEM careers among young Latinas and Latinos across the…
LatinaLista — For many Latino parents of high school graduates, college is not always an immediate certainty. Cost and distance are factors that weigh heavily on many families. And students themselves may be undecided because they don’t know what…
LatinaLista — Summer break has long been known by educators and parents as a time when students lose some of what they learned during the school year. But who would have blamed summertime on losing the chance to go…
LatinaLista — Andres Arreola, an eighth-grader from Sunland Park, New Mexico had two goals on his mind when he took the podium at last week’s National Spanish Spelling Bee at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico…
By Naomi Nix The Seventy-Four Bilingual educational company releases mobile game in English and Spanish for preschoolers If you’re anything like me the idea of language studies brings back haunting memories of outdated vocabulary worksheets in sixth grade…
LatinaLista — While there is still evidence of an achievement gap between Latino and white students throughout high school into college, and especially in the STEM fields in undergrad classes and graduate school, once low-income Latino and other minority…
LatinaLista — Aside from the Alamo, one of the most iconic images most people associate with Texas are cowboy boots. Boots have been part of the Lone Star State’s culture when it was still a part of Mexico, and…
