college enrollment
Latino Enrollment Increases, Mostly 2-Year Degree Programs
White student enrollment is dropping, but a spike in enrollment by Latinos was recently reported by the Pew Hispanic Center. According to his recent report, college-age Latinos accounted for 1.8 […]
The future U.S. economy rests on the decisions of Latino Millennials
SPONSORED CONTENT By NewsTaco (3 minute read) Three recent reports underscore the vital role that Latino Millennials – those between the ages of 18 to 34 – will play in […]
The radically old-fashioned solution for America’s immigration crisis
*Latinos will fuel 25% of the U.S. economy by 2020, we will purchase 50% of homes in the next 20 years, we’re increasing in college enrollment when overall enrollment is […]
White flight is creating a separate and unequal system of higher education
*Fascinating! There’s a two-tiered system of higher education that is self-perpetuating and growing wider. Make sure to share this. VL By Anthony P. Carnevale, Washington Post (5 minute read) In the […]
Closed Doors: Black and Latino Students Are Excluded from Top Public Universities
By Elizabeth Baylor, Center for American Progress (12.5 minute read) In the fall of 2014, 297,000 African American and Latino students enrolled in America’s top public research universities. While access […]
People Keep Saying Higher Education Will Solve Socio-Ecponomic Inequality—It Won’t
*Latinos have bought-in to the idea that a college education is the cure-all goal that opens the door to the American dream. Aaron Sanchez says it isn’t. It’s not equalizing […]
Hollywood is missing a big opportunity with Latinos
*There’s an incongruity when Latinos are 1/4 of the nation’s moviegoers and big industry executives say that Latinos are driving retail sales but Latinos are almost invisible in the entertainment […]
Latinas Leading the Way
*Good news, from the article: “… data from 2013 indicates that women make up 56.51 percent of those enrolled in undergraduate programs, with Hispanic women representing 57.73 percent of all Hispanics […]
How Education Expert Views Miss the Mark on Low Income Students
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco As my students develop their argumentative writing, I push them to ask themselves “What are the implications of my argument?” In other words, if our high-school […]
Power Latinos to play a vital role in rebuilding the middle
By Kim Piston, Voxxi They’re being called the most influential segment since the baby boomers. They accounted for 29 percent of the overall Hispanic spend in 2012, a number which is predicted […]