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Q&A: Cultural Fluency Key to Improving Latino Student Success

Mary Mata October 22, 2013

By New America Media Ed. Note: Latino students comprise over half the K-12 student population in California, and while graduation rates for Latinos are on the rise, a persistent achievement gap […]

Latinos focus of Obamacare enrollment, no Spanish-language website yet

Mary Mata October 21, 2013

In Flooded Colorado, Immigrants’ Livelihoods Washed Away

Mary Mata October 18, 2013

Ancient Mexican medicine: Why it was so effective

Mary Mata October 17, 2013

By  Hope Gillette, Saludify Medicine has been around almost as long as illness; it’s natural for us to want to find a way to feel better. Unfortunately, history is littered with […]

Here’s Why Healthcare.gov Broke Down

Mary Mata

By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica For the past two weeks, healthcare.gov, the federal government’s new health insurance marketplace, has been bogged down by problems, preventing users (including me) from viewing insurance options and […]

Beautiful but deadly: Latinos’ curves put them at risk

Mary Mata October 16, 2013

By Cindy Y. Rodriguez, CNN Elma Dieppa wonders if her cousin Helen Casillas would still be alive today if she had been more aware of how her weight contributed to […]

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

Mary Mata

By Joshua Davis, Wired José Urbina López Primary School sits next to a dump just across the US border in Mexico. The school serves residents of Matamoros, a dusty, sunbaked city […]