Latinos & Birth Control, Great Infographic!
Latinos & Birth Control, Great Infographic!
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Love this Infographic! It was done by our friends at MAP Political Communication, in Austin, Texas. Very few things tell a story better than a picture, […]
Latino High Schoolers Giving Up on STEM
By Michael Morella, U. S. News & World Report Across the country, Hispanic and African-American high schoolers continue to lag their Caucasian and Asian peers in STEM engagement. Retaining and […]
2nd Generation Exceed Immigrants in Income & Education
PRESS RELEASE Second-generation Americans—-the 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrants—-are substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socio-economic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of […]
Tucson Latino Students Win 40 Year Court Battle
PRESS RELEASE Court Orders Tucson School District To Reinstate Culturally Relevant Curriculum That Reflects The History, Culture and Experiences of Mexican Americans TUCSON, AZ – Yesterday Judge David C. Bury ruled […]
Only 14.5% of STEM Students Nationwide are Latino
6 Things You Didn’t Know About STEM Jobs and Students By Jada A. Graves, U. S. News & World Report There is still a movement to entice female students, minority […]
Actor Steven Michael Quezada Wins School Board Seat
By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi Actor Steven Michael Quezada, who plays a role in the AMC television series Breaking Bad, has won a seat on an Albuquerque school board. Quezada plays the […]
Latino High School Achievement Affected By Discrimination
By Cynthia Thaler, LIN@R While Latino students represent an increasing share of the public school population in the United States, they continue to struggle academically compared with their peers. According to […]
Obama’s 2nd-term Education Agenda: Where Do Latinos Fit?
By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny, Huffington Post Latino Voices Amidst all of the election-year sniping, education reform never became a major issue in the 2012 presidential campaign. Even though both candidates released […]
More Latinos Are Graduating – Here’s Why
By EmilyDeruy, ABC/Univsion More than 70 percent of Latino students graduated on time during the 2009-2010 school year, according to data released this week by the Education Department. That’s a jump of […]
Liberal Arts Colleges Partner to Increase Faculty Diversity
By LIN@R/JBHE A group of liberal arts colleges is joining force with the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University in an effort to increase the diversity of the […]