By Devon Delfina NerdWallet No one expects you to have it all together your freshman year of college. You’ll probably end up losing your student ID, getting locked out of your dorm room, picking the wrong major and…
By Peter Rüegg Futurity Whether young people behave prosocially or aggressively comes may depend on the kind of relationship they have with their teachers. Researchers used questions such as “In moments when someone was sad or in pain, how…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Graduates in white and purple robes exited the auditorium, their newly turned tassels bouncing as they sang and danced to a recording of the popular Latin salsa tune, “Vivir Mi Vida.” They…
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As another year begins, school reform falls on everyone to create change
Aug 2, 2016, 2:25 PM 0
Leslie Puente-Ervin LatinaLista Over 50 years ago, Brown versus the Board of Education declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in schools and employment. Even so, sadly, in 2016, the U.S….
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Guest Voz: How one Latina discovered free access to education doesn’t mean equal
Jul 26, 2016, 11:06 AM 0
By Leslie Puente-Ervin LatinaLista I am a Latina born and raised in the South Bronx. Society didn’t expect much of my friends and me. By all accounts, I should have been a statistic: a teenage mother; high school dropout;…
By Esther Canty-Barnes The Conversation On Wednesday, July 6, the four-year-old daughter of Diamond Reynolds witnessed the killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer. She and her mother sat in close proximity to Castile when he was shot. A…
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Crowdfunder: Preserving Afro-ecuadorian artistic heritage with “Palenques Culturales”
Jul 12, 2016, 1:12 PM 0
LatinaLista — “Palenque Cultural Tambillo” is a cultural center dedicated to the continuing artistic traditions of the Afroecuadorean town of Tambillo and its nationally renowned travelling marimba music and dance troupe Incrustados en el Manglar. This group provides an intergenerational link…
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Affirmative Action, #BeckyWithTheBadGrades and Latino Students
Jul 7, 2016, 1:41 PM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat If you haven’t yet heard of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the use of race as a factor in college admissions, you may have at least seen the #BeckyWithTheBadGrades buzz on Twitter…
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Film highlights Cuba’s free medical school to the world’s low-income students
Jun 29, 2016, 3:43 PM 0
LatinaLista — Even before Americans started booking cruises and flights to the island only 485 miles south of Florida (or 90 miles from Key West), otherwise known as Cuba, its reputation for practicing medicine had reached our shores. The…
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After ‘Racist’ Textbook Debate, Mexican-American Studies Educators, Advocates Convene in Texas
Jun 21, 2016, 11:27 AM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat It’s been a month since a proposed textbook for Mexican-American studies courses in Texas spurred widespread controversy over allegations of racism and inaccuracy, and ethnic studies advocates who convened at a 200-person summit in San…
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New report proves how systemic discrimination is in nation’s public school system
Jun 9, 2016, 4:28 PM 0
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…
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Follow-up: Concerned Texans launch petition to force TEA to remove insulting textbook on Mexican American Heritage
May 26, 2016, 11:50 AM 0
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,…
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Student protests spread in Oregon after latest ‘Build a Wall’ clash
May 26, 2016, 9:51 AM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat This election season, it has become common to read about candidates’ anti-immigrant rhetoric trickling down into schools and, in many cases, being used to insult Latino students. Over the past several days, the polarizing phrase “build a…
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Texas Latino school children just got the biggest slapdown from the one state agency supposed to be their strongest advocate
May 25, 2016, 4:17 PM 0
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…
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Crowdfunder: Helping Bolivian school children pedal their way to academic success
May 25, 2016, 1:04 PM 0
LatinaLista — In Third World countries, consistent access to electricity can be tricky, if not impossible for those remote villages and their residents. One non-profit in Bolivia has created a reliable source of electricity for people and it takes…
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New school segregation study finds troubling trends exist for Latino student success
May 17, 2016, 5:32 PM 0
LatinaLista — While the country, as a whole, likes to believe that we’ve achieved the utopian vision of equality, the sad truth is that inequality persists in all sectors of society. The extent of that inequality is more than…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Aiming to solve a diversity problem in Silicon Valley, the Hispanic Heritage Foundation is training the next generation of Latino coders — and teaching them to teach others. “The thought that the tech industry…
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Crowdfunder: On a mission to show kids and adults how to read, understand & enjoy poetry
May 2, 2016, 2:28 PM 0
LatinaLista — Poetry is one of the most beautiful genres of literature but it can also be among the hardest to understand. It takes appreciation to understand a poet’s ‘layer’ of words and that comes with practice and guidance….
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Historic Ethnic Studies Program in Financial Trouble
Mar 8, 2016, 12:43 PM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat The nation’s first and only freestanding College of Ethnic Studiesis struggling to pay its debts. The administration of San Francisco State University announced recently that the institution has been footing a $200,000 annual deficit for the college…
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New Job Perk Could Save Grads 3 Years of Student Loan Payments
Mar 3, 2016, 3:17 PM 0
By Victoria Simons & Anna Helhoski NerdWallet Employers nationwide are beginning to offer a new perk to their increasingly indebted millennial workforce: assistance in paying down student loans. A new study by NerdWallet found undergraduate student debt holders…
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Latino College Groups Play Critical Role On Connecticut Campuses
Mar 3, 2016, 2:44 PM 0
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com They offer salsa classes to foster awareness of their culture and hold forums on immigration to help their members, but Latino student organizations at many of the state’s college and universities have also have embraced…
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DACA and California DREAM Act help some college students but not others
Mar 1, 2016, 12:16 PM 0
By Mirna Durón El Nuevo Sol In early 2011, Carla Martínez’s path to college after finishing high school looked very challenging. As an undocumented student, she had no access to jobs in the formal economy or any kind…
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Educators Rethink Discipline, Learn New Moves to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline
Feb 29, 2016, 12:31 PM 0
By Stell Simonton JJIE ATLANTA — When communities want to snip the school-to-prison pipeline, how do they do it? They revise their code of conduct, redefine the role of school police, address bias, build a positive school climate…
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Crowdfunder: Filling the book shelves of village schools in Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas
Feb 26, 2016, 2:22 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Books for the Students of Cuzco A book can change a child. A library of books can change a whole community. Folks at the NEA Foundation, a public charity, want to fill the bookshelves of village schools…
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Latino veteran creates his own script for career success with help from FOX News Ailes Apprentice Program
Feb 26, 2016, 11:06 AM 0
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…
