Google Chrome Allows Anyone To Read En Español

Google Chrome Allows Anyone To Read En Español

Mary Mata May 16, 2011

Spanish is a part of our lives as Latinos, but for many reasons, we don’t all speak, read or write it very well. I would include myself in this category, […]

If Latino Students Fail, The U.S. Will Fail

Mary Mata May 12, 2011

We all know that education is the key to our future, yet, as Latino students increasingly make up a majority of students in our nation’s school districts, these institutions are […]

Mexican & Mexican American Are Not The Same Thing

Mary Mata May 11, 2011

You know what really gets my goat? When I either hear or read or receive comments equating Latinos with Mexico. Or when something I write about my experience as a […]

Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce DREAM Act

Mary Mata

President Barack Obama made a first push for immigration reform yesterday in a speech in El Paso, Texas, and today his fellow Democrats in the Senate followed suit by re-introducing […]

Bien Hecho: 6 Indiana DREAMers Arrested, 5 To Be Deported

Mary Mata May 10, 2011

On the day President Barack Obama made a speech about the importance of immigration reform, news of six DREAMers being arrested in Indiana comes to light. The students were protesting […]

Mexico University President’s Next Step: Educate Latinos in US

NewsTaco

The president of one of Mexico’s most prestigious and well known Universities says he wants to help Latinos in the United States attain higher education. Rafael Rangel Sostmann recently retired […]

Facebook: The Biggest News Organization Of All Time

Mary Mata May 9, 2011

Facebook is the largest news organization to have ever existed, this according to a story in the Harvard Business Review. We’ve written consistently that Latinos are big on Facebook (2.7 […]

Arizona Protests Begin Ahead Of Ethnic Studies Ruling

Mary Mata

In a few weeks Arizona Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal will issue a ruling on whether or not Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program is in violation of state law. […]

90 Percent Latino High School In Running For President’s Speech

NewsTaco

A high school in rural Washington state with 90 percent Latino enrollment, and a majority of seniors who are the first in their families to graduate from high school, is in […]

Latino Student Lack Of Civics Knowledge Is Major Concern

NewsTaco May 6, 2011

Whenever he’d see a bad situation turned worse by incompetence or lack of caring a friend from my days in TV production would mutter, looking down and shaking his head slowly: Asi nunca vamos a ganar […]