By Katy Farber Mom’s Clean Air Force Extra! Extra! Read all about it! I should say read more about it. There are more and more reports and articles showing the link between air pollution and health conditions, diseases, and…
Children, Life Issues
Pool safety campaigns highlight Latino and black children’s high risk for drownings
May 25, 2012, 2:48 PM 4
LatinaLista — Temperatures are warming up. School is winding down. Kids are looking forward to doing their favorite summer activity — swimming. Unfortunately for too many Latino children swimming can be a death trap. The Centers for Disease Control…
Children, Health, Life Issues
With food allergies on the rise, more parents push for legislation to keep their kids safe in school
May 17, 2012, 10:20 AM 1
By Susan Tharp LatinaLista A recent study found that one in 13 children in America suffer from food allergies. Unlike other childhood medical conditions, there is no cure for food allergies and they can linger an entire lifetime. What…
Children, Life Issues
California stems summer learning loss among disadvantaged students with new educational campaign
May 14, 2012, 2:37 PM 0
LatinaLista — Summer break is only a few weeks away for most school children in the U.S. and while it’s the time of year every kid looks forward to, summer always brings mixed feelings from adults. For example, though…
BlogBeat, General
Hispanic Students Narrow Science Achievement Gap on NAEP Exam
May 14, 2012, 12:42 PM 0
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The achievement gap between Latino and white eighth-graders in science is narrowing, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data released on Thursday. Between 2009 and 2011, average science scores among…
General, Nonprofit
Spotlight Nonprofit: Teaching kids with cancer to kick away pain and fear through martial arts
May 11, 2012, 3:53 PM 0
LatinaLista — Cancer sucks! For anyone diagnosed with it, it’s a horrific, painful, scary thing to go through. Watching someone go through the treatments, especially loved ones, is hard but watching a child endure the pain and fear of…
Local News, South
Houston school board votes to close exemplary charter school for children from Latino immigrant families
May 11, 2012, 10:59 AM 0
By Ray Ruiz The Venture HOUSTON — At a meeting in April, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board decided to merge the exemplary-rated Kaleidoscope Charter School with Jane Long Middle School by a vote of 6-3. Kaleidoscope has…
Books, Culture
Mainstream children’s book publishers do a sad, sad job meeting the needs of Latino readers
May 9, 2012, 4:30 PM 8
LatinaLista — The perception that there are a lot of Latino children running and skipping on playgrounds across the country is no mirage. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the number of Latino students in the nation’s public schools…
By Mary Liepold Peace X Peace When the scandal around President Obama’s Secret Service took over the headlines last month, it all but obscured the reason he went to Colombia: the 2012 Summit of the Americas. Pan-American relations were…
Children, Life Issues, Parenting
New report shows the U.S. still failing new parents in providing protections for paid leave
May 8, 2012, 11:30 AM 0
LatinaLista — Nobody argues that parenting is hard work, and with all due respect to stay-at-home moms, those moms who find themselves having to return to work after giving birth to provide a decent quality of life for themselves…
Nonprofit
Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving teen moms the “hope” of a better future with help to get through college
May 4, 2012, 10:42 AM 0
LatinaLista — May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, a time focused on encouraging young girls to be smart about not getting pregnant. Yet, for those girls who have gotten pregnant and are raising their children, there is not…
By Dalia Diaz Rumbo News LOWELL, MA — A group of 14 Colombian children, 8 boys and 6 girls visited Massachusetts recently, and on April 20, were invited by Lowell Mayor Patrick O. Murphy to visit his office. During…
