Studies highlight teacher-student ‘diversity gap’

*This matters. 48 percent of students in U.S. public schools are not white. Of the 3.3 million teachers in America’s public schools, only eighteen percent are racial, ethnic or cultural […]

*The fight for Mexican-American studies in Texas intensifies. The state Board of Education is set for a vote on the matter on April 9. Republican members of the board are […]

By Ronald Roach, Diverse Issues in Higher Education The U.S. workforce could employ as many as 140,000 additional African-American and Latino college graduates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields […]

By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco As Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennet and the Latino Advisory Committee prepare for their second meeting next week, I share this feedback to emphasize that, […]

By Albert Silva, Hancock High School Senior Many people here at Hancock High School think the Hancock community is mostly accepting of the small LGBT community that it has, because […]

By Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post A classroom skit that third-graders were preparing to present in a Prince George’s Countyelementary school was canceled after a parent alerted school officials to material she thought […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco My wife is an educator, so I’ve heard of the “word gap” in conversations with her. The word gap is the difference in the number of […]

By Ray Salazar, Gozamos My students are sometimes surprised when they hear it took my five years to get through undergrad. “Aren’t you supposed to graduate in four?” they’ll ask.  […]

By Bryan Llenas, Fox News Latino President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled his “Promise Zone” program which will give communities preferential treatment when applying for federal grants to boost early education, reduce […]

By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA When the Arizona Department of Education banned 90 books from its public schools for being “subversive,” ban opponents struck back. They set up underground libraries […]