Latino Student Awarded $1 Million for High School Harassment
Latino Student Awarded $1 Million for High School Harassment
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco For almost three and one half years Anthony Zeno put up with racial harassment at his rural New York High School, until he could take it […]
Bien Hecho: Latina Overachiever Becomes a College President
By Ricardo Chavira, LIN@R FULLERTON, CA–Scholarly diligence and excellence, a willingness to move every few years and plain hard work are just some of what’s required to become a university president. […]
DREAMers Won’t Settle For Just The Dream Act
By Elise Foley, Huffington Post Latino Vocies WASHINGTON — Nearly 600 would-be Dream Act beneficiaries and their allies, who helped in a successful push earlier this year for relief for […]
Latinos Use Mobile Devices for Homework More than Others
By Latinovations A new national survey conducted by TRU is reporting that Latino students are the biggest users of mobile devices for homework compared to other racial and ethnic groups. The survey polled 1,000 […]
The Dilemma Of Higher Education Facing Latinos
By Victor Escalante, NewsTaco One of the questions Latinos face in our time is the pursuit of higher education. The only reason this is an issue is due to […]
Returning Migrant Kids Pose Educational Challenge in Mexico
By Kent Paterson, New America Media/Frontera NorteSur In different migrant-sending regions of Mexico, educators are coping with the new challenge of teaching children of return migrants who speak little or […]
Help bring back Chicano Studies in Tucson!
By Three Sonorans One of the most important parts of the federal desegregation court order on Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the new Unitary Status Plan (USP) which is being […]
STEM Visa Considered for a House Vote Next Week
By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi After the Thanksgiving break, Congressional members in the House will consider voting on a Republican-backed STEM Visa bill next week adding to their list of legislative […]
Mass. To Grant In-State Tuition To DREAMers
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices Undocumented immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation will get tuition breaks at public colleges and universities inMassachusetts. An unnamed official told The Boston […]
Academic Performance Not Top Reason for High Dropout Rates
By Hope Gillette, Voxxi Poor academic performance ranked fourth on decisive reasons for high school student drop out , states the 2012 High School Drop Outs in America study. The data indicates […]