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Insider’s Guide for Incoming Latino College Students

Mary Mata August 19, 2013

By Christine Killion and Samantha Madera, Al Día News You made it. You’ve struggled through twelve or more years of furious concentrating, reading until your eyes were sore, and scribbling until […]

More Latinas leaving home for college

Mary Mata August 16, 2013

Cultural myths about pregnancy: Culture’s role in expectations

Mary Mata

Study shows Jim Crow-era segregation persists in Texas schools

Mary Mata August 15, 2013

By Phys.org A first-of-its-kind study from researchers in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin shows that, in addition to being isolated by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic […]

Latino Preschool rate lowest in U.S.

Mary Mata

By John Benson, Voxxi Latino children are lacking when it comes to early childhood development. The recently released Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual 2013 Kids Count report reveals among any racial […]

Latina Leaders: From East LA to the White House, trying to improve the health of Latinos

Mary Mata

By Kristina Puga, NBCLatino Dr. Elena Rios is much more than a doctor of internal medicine. She says ever since she was a teenager in her hometown of East LA, she […]

Online Problem: Too many education policy voices are white

Mary Mata

By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco Inspired by a blog post about BAM! Radio Network’s push to take on taboo education topics, I’m writing about the inequality that must be leveled–too many voices in […]