Latinos Need To Go Past Bachelor’s Degrees To Graduate School
Latinos Need To Go Past Bachelor’s Degrees To Graduate School
By studying at the undergraduate level, and then pursuing a graduate degree, Latinos may gain influence in the highest levels of our society. Every year I work to create opportunities to […]
Latino Students Scoring Higher On ACT Test
Standardized tests have been a thorn in my side for most of my life — I simply am not a good test taker — but it’s not just me. If […]
Fighting for the DREAM At The State Level
By Matias Ramos, otherwords.org When a group of undocumented young people took the stage at an immigration reform rally outside the White House in late July, they had a catchy chant: “Hey, […]
El Camino For Latinos Into STEM
By Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez One in five children in the U.S. today is Latino. If we are to survive in this increasingly globalized world, we’ll need all the science, technology, […]
Being An Unstable, 30ish, Single Latina
I’m single, I’m almost 30, I’m unstable and currently in the middle of moving from Texas where all my family is, to LA, where I have a few family members […]
California Gov Signs DREAM Act
California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation yesterday that would allow undocumented students to receive privately funded financial aid in California. This is one half of a “DREAM Act” bill that […]
Half Of Male Grads of Color End Up In Jail, Jobless Or Dead
[Editor’s Note: The following is a release from The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center.] Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high […]
Latino Grads Suffered More During Recession
Latino college graduates suffered much more than their white counterparts when the economy began a downturn over the past few years, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center. […]
News Taco To Go: Latinos, College, Georgia & Gays
The Top 10 Latino Ethnic Groups In The US Less Than 6 Million Latino Adults Have A College Degree Civil Rights Groups Take Georgia Immigration Law To Court Anti-Gay Latino […]
Less Than 6 Million Latino Adults Have A College Degree
Recently I was perusing Census data to determine, exactly, how many Latinos in this country have college degrees. Given that Latinos are a fast growing portion of the U.S. population, […]