education
Book club helps immigrant mothers find joy in reading and support their kids’ education
*What I like about this story is the narrative-changing, uplifting, feel good side. It flies in the face of everything mainstream America believes about Latinos and Latino immigrants. This is […]
How Fears of Deportation Harm Kids’ Education
*In 2012 3.5 million children in U.S. public elementary and secondary schools had at least one undocumented parent. “Immigration policy is education policy.” VL By Melinda D. Anderson, The Atlantic […]
Latino education decline a looming Texas disaster
*Sosa outlines a seven piece plan to change education in Texas for the better: teach college expectation in school; be open to technological change; experiment; reward best schools and teachers; […]
Texas Supreme Court has opportunity to improve public education
*This is important for Latinos students in Texas. This is the inequity in a nutshell: “In Texas, with the average school tax rate of $1 per $100 value of property, […]
UTSA to acquire papers of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project
* It makes sense, given that San Antonio was where Willie Velásquez started his community organizing, voter registration and voting rights work in the early 1970’s. President Bill Clinton posthumously awarded […]
How to even the educational playing field for Latino kids
*I’m skeptical of “How to” headlines that assume knowledge of a secret sauce to fix a problem. But I can’t help myself, I click on them anyway, that’s what the […]
Latino Education Gains Are Encouraging: New Report
*From the report: ” … overwhelming majority of Latino parents say they expect their child to continue their education beyond high school.” VL By Juan Castillo, NBC News Despite challenges, a […]
Why education reporting is REALLY so boring
*This is good. I agree that education reporting could use a kick-start. But reporting thrives on conflict, and positive stories don’t get the same reader attention as problems, crime and […]
America doesn’t have an education problem, it has a class problem
*This has obvious implications in the Latino community. As much as we may strive for educational improvement there are systemic issues that need to be addressed. This from the article: […]
5 reasons why Time Magazine’s Rotten Apples article is right about education
*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 […]