LatinaLista — About 1 in 3 black and Hispanic students in the state now attend a school where more than 90 percent of the students are not white, and on average, they attend schools with one and a half…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat For nearly three decades, a White House commission created to help boost Hispanic student achievement, has advised four presidents and their secretaries of education. The advisory panel, however, is set to expire on…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat More Hispanic students are taking the ACT college-entrance exam, and in some states their scores inched up, new data show. But the achievement gap persists for the class of 2017, with many…
By Amanda Merck SaludAmerica! The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce is no more diverse than it was 20 years ago. In fact, less than 2% of the STEM workforce is Latino youth, although they make up about…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat New U.S. Census data show a dramatic increase in the number of Hispanics attending school, reaching nearly 18 million in 2016. The figure — which covers education at all levels — is double the…
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…
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…
By Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com Yale University was founded in 1701. Over 250 years later, in the early 1970s, the first Latinos stepped foot on the prestigious campus. For these Latinos, Yale was a Sisyphean challenge — a sea of…
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…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics has launched a digital campaign to highlight the impact of Latino teachers and hopefully to attract more Latinos to the teaching profession. The…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated much of southeastern Louisiana, New Orleans and its surrounding areas have seen an influx of Hispanic immigrants who are establishing permanent roots, with many being…
by Emily Starbuck Crone NerdWallet As college costs rise, more students are taking out loans to help pay for school. Of those who graduated from college in 2013, 69% had student loans, with an average debt amount of $28,400…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat More Latinos are earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields; yet more are needed, a new report by Excelencia in Education claims. According to the study, “Finding Your Workforce: Latinos in…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Since early November, American universities have entered the pool of applicants competing for federal funds to serve Hispanic students better. Colleges looking to secure Title V funds for the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Hispanic-Serving…
SaludToday! Latinos must earn an additional 5.5 million college degrees for America to regain world leadership in college degrees by 2020, according to a new report. The report, from Excelencia in Education and the United Negro College Fund, examines…
By Jessica Salcedo Borderzine EL PASO — Eight years ago, when 24-year-old Rosalie Aguirre moved from Durango, México to El Paso to receive an education, she had no idea of the multiple steps she would have to take to…
Brian Woodman, Jr. CTLatinoNews.com Latinos enrolled in the Connecticut’s technical school system are graduating at a higher rate than those in general schools and have a higher than general average rate of going on to college, according to the…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat Until this week, Texas Christian University professor Santiago Piñón was apparently best known for his work teaching a popular course on Latinos and religion. On the web site Rate My Professors, reviewers…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat Higher numbers of Latinos are enrolling in college than ever before — even as overall college enrollment in the United States is falling. The findings were released by the U.S. Census Bureau…
LatinaLista — This weekend in Washington DC, educators, school administrators, community activists, law enforcement and students from across the country are getting together for the first-ever national conference to talk about what can be done to stop funneling so…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat A new report by a federal advisory committee concludes that several proposed need-based financial aid changes to the Higher Education Act (HEA) could threaten the completion rates of low-income college students, and…
By Laura Pereyra NerdScholar Background: Where STEM diversity is now Today only 18.3% and 12.1% of STEM students who get computer science and engineering degrees are from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, respectively. Given that our country’s demographics are rapidly…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat Three suicides by Latino teenagers in recent years have prompted introspection at the academically highly regarded East Hampton High School in New York State. The New York Times recently reported that the…
LatinaLista — It is said that by 2025 63 percent of all jobs are going to need some ‘post-secondary’ education. In simple terms, a high school diploma is not going to cut it in the future for a job…
LatinaLista — President Obama’s State of the Union announcement that he plans on working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America is welcome news in the Latino community that has historically struggled with low…
