LatinaLista — What do old pianos have to do with helping kids? A lot, if those pianos are donated to Keys 4/4 Kids (K4K). The premise is simple: Send out a call to the community for old pianos to…
LatinaLista — It’s estimated that over 18 million people in the United States play soccer, 78 percent of which are under the age of 18. While the sport, better known as “futbol” or “football” in the rest of the…
LatinaLista — There are two parts of the battle against childhood obesity — teaching children and their families which foods are healthy to eat and how to cook healthy foods. It’s the second part that is proving more difficult…
LatinaLista — If there’s one single bit of news to cheer about regarding today’s release of The Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2010 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), it’s that fourth graders still love to learn. In…
LatinaLista — There’s long been debate in the United States over whether or not retaining a child in a particular grade was a good or bad thing. Yet, no one ever addresses if transferring students, labeled “troublemakers,” to alternative…
LatinaLista — Today’s release of the Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2010 showed that 12th graders not only had the least improvement in geography scores but the percentage of students at or above Proficient was lower in 2010 than in…
LatinaLista — A study by the University of Chicago found that less than ten percent of children who go through the foster care system ever graduate from college. One of the lucky ones is Marquis Cabrera. Abandoned as an…
LatinaLista — When it comes to transracial adopting — when an adopted child is of a different race/ethnicity from the adoptive parents — a loving home outweighs any other concern for what is best for the child. Yet, it…
LatinaLista — Latino youth are not living up to their academic potential. It’s an undeniable fact and a bold statement. But it doesn’t just place the blame on Latino families, like a recent speech by the President and CEO of…
LatinaLista — Having a baby is expensive. A teen mom having a baby is expensive not only for the family but for the state as well. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released a new analysis…
LatinaLista — This morning’s first-ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, chaired by Sen. Durbin, seemed, at times, like an exercise in “preaching to the choir.” The audience was overwhelmingly supportive of the DREAM Act and, in fact, many…
LatinaLista — Out of the 14,000 school districts across the nation, less than 2 percent have a Latino or Latina superintendent. A new professional development program hopes to change those statistics. The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS)…
By Tony Cantú La Prensa de San Antonio.- Since taking the helm as CEO of Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas in 2009, Anna Maria Chávez has overseen a period of substantial growth for the local council, now serving more…
LatinaLista — The nation’s budget deficit is serious business. Nobody can argue that. Yet, the fact that some in Congress are arguing that the poor and children of color can most afford cuts or eliminations of programs that don’t…
LatinaLista — What teenager doesn’t like to crank up the music? If the music is on the car radio or bedroom stereo, it’s not too big a deal because there’s most often someone around either yelling to turn it…
LatinaLista — Not knowing American history has become an easy source of cheap laughs for late-night comics. For example, when comic Jay Leno, during one of his popular “Jaywalking” segments, asked a random woman on the street, who appeared…
Lauren Maxwell LatinaLista USA — Who mentored you? Who was the one always encouraging you and when you felt frustrated, still challenged you to go farther than you ever thought you could go? Who inspired you through their strength…
By Alfredo R. Santos La Voz de Austin On June 4th, 2011, I went to a rally at the Texas State Capitol to help call attention to the fact that public education is under attack in Texas. As I…
LatinaLista — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one in four adolescents reports verbal, physical, emotional or sexual abuse from a boyfriend or girlfriend each year. Otherwise known as teen dating violence, it has been on…
El Tiempo Hispano DELAWARE — Reading can be a simple and automatic task to people without any problem. However, reading is a complex and difficult task for our brain, so it should not be a surprise that so many…
LatinaLista — Who would have thought that educators needed a manual on how to teach children? Well, it seems suburban educators, who are seeing their classrooms become more diversified over the last few years, could use a little guidance…
LatinaLista — Literacy. It’s a word that gauges the future success of our children in school. Children who have an appreciation of reading and learn the basics of sounding out words go on to have success in school. Children…
By Aracelli Astorga LatinaLista Papi’s Gift, by Karen Stanton and illustrated by René King Moreno, tells the story of Graciela, a young girl who lives in a small, Latin American village with her mother and two brothers. Because it…
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — Experts at a recent educational forum agreed that Latino students in the San Diego Unified School District are trailing behind their White counterparts. The forum, which took place…
By Angie Washington Latina Lista COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Pity is the lazy cousin of compassion. A small girl sits on a swing. Not a week has passed since she was removed from an abusive situation and put in the…
