Tackling the Shortage of Latinos in Math and Science

And then there is the other story that needs to be told, and told again. Not to undermine a vastly troubling problem in our community, but the drop out rate […]

A recent survey by the Modern Language Association found that Spanish is the most-studied language in colleges in the United States. About 850,000 students take Spanish, compared to 210,000 in […]

Many of you college football fans already know this, but Notre Dame is playing in the Sun Bowl, in El Paso, this year. That fact induced a local TV station […]

One of the great American traits is improvisation. From a nation of immigrants, one of our greatest cultural gifts to the world has been Jazz, the quintessential improvisation. But it […]

There’s a wonderful story about a Latina law student who petitioned for and won legal protection for an indigenous group in Oaxaca, Mexico. The story of Carla Espinoza’s fight for […]

TheProgressive.org posted an excellent piece about the steady creep towards the re-segregation of public schools. The editorial, written by Fred McKissack, makes a point of stating that desegregation in our […]

A totally unexpected and educative story from the Honolulu Weekly this week shows that Latinos have a long history in that state. The story starts off talking about Don Francisco […]

To think that the Dreamers have a viable option is to misunderstand their reality. Dreamers are the students and their supporters who organized themselves across the country in support of […]

Five Democrats — all the votes needed to pass it — voted “No” this morning to kill the DREAM Act. Remember in November! We at NewsTaco will keep you updated […]

Yale University finally did the right thing and returned artifacts originally taken from Machu Picchu in Perú in the early 1900s by Hiram Bingham III. Yale tried to the Peruvian […]