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From NYC’s International Schools, Lessons For Teaching Unaccompanied Minors

NewsTaco November 6, 2014

*I’m always interested in sharing stories about ideas that work. Here’s one about educating immigrant children that has seen success in NYC. VL By Alexandra Starr, NPR Flushing International High […]

California Takes on Academic Inequities for Black, Latino Students

NewsTaco November 4, 2014

Missing Minority Ph.D.s

NewsTaco November 3, 2014

How Have Community College Funding Cuts Affected Latinos?

NewsTaco October 30, 2014

*Interesting: when funding for community colleges decreased, tuition increased in a majority of states. The Latino college student profile is ” low-income, first in the family to go to college, works more than […]

5 reasons why Time Magazine’s Rotten Apples article is right about education

NewsTaco October 29, 2014

*Testing and teacher tenure – Ray Salazar’s take on a Time articl. He says there is more to it than a magazine cover. VL By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino […]

Why is bilingual education ‘good’ for rich kids but ‘bad’ for poor, immigrant students?

NewsTaco October 27, 2014

*Excellent! Yes, let’s have this conversation. VL By Claire Bowern, Washington Post Two languages, two sets of opinion about bilingualism. On the one side is the research that consistently shows […]

US Latino Students’ High School Dropout Rate Is 50 Percent Lower Than in 2000

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*The good news is that something is working, the not so good news is that no one can say, for sure, what brought about the success – too many theories, […]