LatinaLista — It just doesn’t pay for teachers to teach Latino or black children — literally! A report issued last month from the Department of Education highlighted the fact that teachers at schools with more Latino and African American…
LatinaLista — Here’s a riddle: What do you call someone who was born in the United States to undocumented parents? The answer should be “American citizens.” Yet, in Florida, young people born in the Sunshine State of undocumented parents…
LatinaLista — Though it may seem that school just barely started, for many high school juniors and seniors it’s the time of year to start thinking about college. For low-income students, the idea of going to college can be…
LatinaLista — Students helping one another learn isn’t such a revolutionary idea. Yet, students helping one another learn while getting paid just might be an idea that helps reform education in ways no one imagined. Students Connecting matches student tutors…
LatinaLista — With the rising numbers of Latinos uninsured in this country and the growing list of challenging illnesses facing Latinos like: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, breast cancer, skin cancer, glaucoma, cervical cancer, etc., it makes for a disturbing…
By Priscilla Cabral-Pérez Hawaii Hispanic News HONOLULU, Hawaii – On July 8, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese named ‘Iolani School Spanish teacher Guia Melo the “2011 Secondary School Outstanding Teacher of the Year.” Melo traveled…
LatinaLista — “Does a policy of kicking “bad kids” out of school so “good kids” can learn really work?” That’s the premise of a new report released today titled Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice. The report, authored by…
LatinaLista — A new poll released by New York University’s Silver School of Social Work’s Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) and Planned Parenthood shows that 82 percent of parents are having a “sex talk” with their…
LatinaLista — In 2008, the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education got together to review the educational status of Americans. What the commission saw disturbed them. The US was falling behind other industrialized nations in the number…
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa TULSA, Oklahoma — Two dates. Two groups. Six hundred participants. One auditorium. That’s how Deborah Easter describes the two education and business conferences that are scheduled for Nov. 1 and 3 at Oral…
LatinaLista — The debate over whether or not a child is better off learning in a bilingual environment has raged before the time when American educators forced thousands of Native American school children into English-speaking boarding schools or punished…
LatinaLista — More and more reports are surfacing across the country that ICE agents are not practicing what John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, promised would happen — that ICE agents would exercise prosecutorial discretion when handling…
LatinaLista — It’s estimated that 52 percent of Latinas will become pregnant at least once by age 20. While the Latina teen pregnancy rates have actually fallen and are at their lowest levels in years, unfortunately, Latina teen birth…
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — Ben Austin explains how “Parent Trigger” empowers parents to transform under-performing schools. A group of San Diego parents gathered this week to kick off a nine-city tour that…
LatinaLista — The cost of college has always been a strain on budget-tight families. These days, the cost of college is forcing most families to make hard decisions and new sacrifices. That’s why scholarships are so important to students…
By URIEL J. GARCIA Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Arizona had the nation’s highest number of people in default on their federal student loans in fiscal 2009, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Education. The…
by Kathleen O. Vale La Voz de Austin COMMENTARY — I am a proud sixth-generation female member of a Mexican- American family whose roots begin in San Antonio, Texas, meander back to Rio Grande City, Texas (in Starr County,…
LatinaLista — Undocumented college students in Georgia were facing a pretty dismal start to the school year this year. A ruling in 2010 by the Georgia State Board of Regents barring any state college or university from accepting undocumented immigrants…
The Venture HOUSTON — Joshua A. Molina’s death in Iraq did not cut short his dreams of bettering the lives of Guatemalan children. Molina, a 20-year-old Army Corporal, was born and raised in Houston. As he grew up, he…
By Aaron Martinez and Mariel Torres Borderzine EL PASO — As the drug war rages on in México, the number of students that have enrolled in El Paso schools due to the violence remains unknown and unrecorded by schools….
LatinaLista — The latest report on the status of Latino college enrollment rounds out an interesting snapshot. Though the high school dropout rate is the highest among Latino students, and is a statistic that fits with the popular stereotype…
LatinaLista — It’s always assumed that if a person works hard, he/she will succeed in life. The harder you work, the greater your success. It’s the premise for the proverbial “American Dream.” Yet, a new poll released by Colorlines.com…
LatinaLista — In every survey conducted of Latino parents about their hopes for the education of their children, the unanimous sentiment is that they want their children to go on to college. Unfortunately, there is a learning gap for…
By Jenn Sanchez LatinaLista When I left El Paso for the University of Texas at Austin in the spring of 1995, I was the first person in my family to leave for college. I also was one of a…
LatinaLista — It’s one thing for adults to stress the importance of education to young people but quite another when students realize it for themselves — and it seems Latino students are slowly but surely getting that message. In…
