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…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat It wasn’t that long ago that tech entrepreneur Sahari Espinoza Salamanca thought she’d never be able to go to college. As an undocumented immigrant, financial-aid opportunities were limited, and despite her long list of academic…
By Patricia Campos-Medina LatinaLista After a presentation at a college conference, a young college student named Lucia (not her real name) came up to me and asked if we could talk for a few minutes. I love talking…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Sixty black and Latino boys spoke to Boston school officials last week about issues they feel might be holding them back at school. Segregation, high suspension rates and teacher diversity were at the…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian PHARR, RGV – Robotics instructor and mentor Juan Carlos Suarez is urging Rio Grande Valley teachers not to turn away any student that wants to join a robotics team. Interest in robotics…
LatinaLista — Campaign: MYCincinnati – Strength & Community Through Music MYCincinnati (Music for Youth in Cincinnati) is a free, daily youth orchestra program for children in Price Hill. 80 students attend the program every weekday for two hours,…
By Katherine Alanis Ramirez Borderzine EL PASO — For a while now, UTEP’s Speech and Debate team has faced a lack of literary diversity and its inaccessibility for use in competitive speeches and interpretive events. With a minimal…
LatinaLista — The life of a migrant farmworker may be one of the darkest blemishes on the U.S. labor market. As if it wasn’t bad enough that migrant workers, and their families, are exposed to dangerous pesticides, abusive employers,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: LURUCHA: A CHILDREN'S BOOK FROM A SCHOOL IN PERU Kuska School is an alternative elementary school located on a sustainable farm on Inca terraces in Ollantaytambo, Peru, near Machu Picchu. In small multiage groups, through…
By Peter Reynosa LatinaLista This year Latinos officially became the largest ethnic group in California at 39 percent, and according to U.S. Census projections, Latinos will make up 31 percent of the national population by 2043. The past…
By Kelsey Sheehy NerdScholar We all know how dull completing forms can be. But the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is one form that’s well worth your time. Filling out the FAFSA can make you eligible…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, RGV – It could be tempting for the child of a low-wage family living in Reynosa to think that assisting a colonia gang leader by, for example, standing on a street…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Nearly 1 million students studied abroad in the United States last school year — among them more Latin American students than ever before, according to a new study by the Institute of International Education. The…
By Eduardo Rueda La Prensa San Diego The San Ysidro School District on Thursday voted unanimously to declare a local state of emergency to deal with issues related to homelessness among over 1,550 of their students. The Board…
By Agnes Rivera Peru This Week Nestled in the mountains of the Ancash region is the town Huari, a small village that acts as the seat of the Huari province. Not too long ago, Huari was crowned “Peru’s…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Mexican American children used to be separated from white students in schools because of their Hispanic surnames and the assumption that their English-language skills weren’t good. That practice is not legal anymore, but Latino…
Erik De La Cruz Latina Lista Culture is vital in the Latino community. However, there is a difference between respecting a culture and exploiting it. Being from San Diego County, we are surrounded by Mexico’s influence because of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Send Freedom University Students on College Tour! In 2010, the Georgia Board of Regents banned undocumented students from admission to the state’s top public universities simply because they are undocumented. For all other state colleges, they…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Musicaustral — South American roots music camp Musicaustral is a musical camp designed for young musicians to develop and/or deepen their Latin-American musical identity during a 10-day immersion in the natural context of Frutillar Bajo,…
By Nate Robson Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma’s special education students who are minorities are being expelled, suspended or referred to police at rates of up to four times that of their white counterparts, according to an Oklahoma Watch analysis…
By Maria Luna-Medina El Tiempo Hispano In the early spring of 2015 a group of young Latino Professionals decided to form a group with a mission to motivate, inspire, and educate the Hispanic youth in their community to…
By William Schmidt and Nathan A Burroughs The Conversation The influence of student poverty on student learning is indisputable. International studies demonstrate that in every country, children from disadvantaged backgrounds are much less likely to excel in school than their…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat When a California middle school’s election results didn’t reflect the diverse demographics of the student body, Principal Lena Van Haren saw it as a teaching opportunity. She held on to the results…
By Tom Blanton Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Increasing college enrollment rates among American-born Hispanics and a surge in Latina entrepreneurship aren’t enough to eliminate wage disparities that prevent Latino families from improving their economic well-being, a new report said….
By Jason Martinez Borderzine EL PASO — Ester Zapata, homeless and hungry after she started college at the University of Texas in El Paso, never forgot the pain, loneliness and suffering of not being able to find relief….
