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America Has Already Changed; It’s a Three-Year-Old’s World

NewsTaco February 8, 2011

The New York times reports that, according to the US Census, less than half of all three year-olds in the United States are white. Hold on to your sombreros, kindergartens […]

Spanish Is The Most Important Foreign Language In U.S.

Mary Mata February 7, 2011

U.S. To Have Most Spanish Speakers By 2050

Mary Mata February 1, 2011

Latinos Will be in a Bigger Spotlight in Spring, Summer

NewsTaco

It’s looking like spring and summer will be key for Latinos and the release of the numbers of the Census population count. Spring for political reasons, summer for just about […]

Group Hopes To Save Ethnic Studies In Arizona

Mary Mata January 31, 2011

Save Ethnic Studies, Inc. is a non-profit organization that recently started in Arizona to help challenge HB 2281, the state’s new anti-ethnic studies (or, more appropriately, Chicano Studies) law that […]

Latino Deficiency in Science is More Than Sputnik Moment

NewsTaco January 27, 2011

“Fifty-eight percent of Hispanic 12th-grade students scored below basic” proficiency in math and science. The quote was taken from a story published in the chron.com about dismal science scores across […]

Do Catholic Schools See a Future in the Latino Community?

NewsTaco January 20, 2011

In the interest of full disclosure I must ‘fess that I’m the product of a Catholic education (my present church going record notwithstanding). Friday mass in elementary and secundaria, and […]