By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat Educators in Puerto Rico are getting support from the American Federation of Teachers in their efforts to thwart a plan to close schools as a way of helping the island deal with its…
By Gigi Pedraza Latino Connection Cristela Alonzo, as a girl, dreamed about meeting the Backstreet Boys. She dreamed that she would be the best maid ever. She would clean so good that the singers would notice her. It never occurred to Cristela…
By Joe White LatinaLista Inspirational Teachers……….You know who they are. They made us want to get up and give our best until there was nothing more to give……and then give some more. They moved us. They made us work….
LatinaLista — Every day the headlines deliver more dire news about the state of our environment. But while these headlines reflect the worst case scenarios, it doesn’t mean all hope is lost. The planet can still be healed as…
LatinaLista — The nation’s public school system, and its teachers, have long been under assault – some of it deserved and most not. What is clear is that enrollment, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, is only…
LatinaLista — As the national economy begins to transform itself to better handle its future role in a global economy, more emphasis and attention are being directed at encouraging students to major in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM)…
By Lily Eskelsen LatinaLista Wednesday I will stand on the West Lawn of our nation’s capitol with thousands of others and demand that a dream come true. Congress isn’t Disneyland and I am not wishing on a star for…
LatinaLista — Outside the families of undocumented students, the people who know best the challenges, heartaches and fears that undocumented students endure are their teachers. Since the DREAMer movement started, countless teachers have joined the fight to get DREAMers recognized…
LatinaLista — Three years ago, a collaborative team of Mexican educators, engineers, artists and actors pooled their skills and created a program where they went into rural Mexican communities, lived with the people and taught them basic eco-sustainable practices…
By Robert Cyr CTLatinoNews.com Iran Nazario was nine years old when he watched his father stab his stepmother four times. Child welfare workers moved him from New York to his mother’s house in Connecticut. She used drugs and was…
