‘Promise Zones’ Unveiled By President To Aid Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Regions
‘Promise Zones’ Unveiled By President To Aid Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Regions
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 […]
Is There a Glass Ceiling for California’s Latino Students?
By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez,The California Report For more than a decade, California educators have been trying to close the achievement gap between Latinos and their white and Asian classmates. Latinos do worse […]
Minority students make up new majority in Illinois public schools
By Diane Rado, Chicago Tribune New enrollment numbers show that lllinois’ public school system for the first time does not have a white majority, with Latino, black, Asian and other […]
Banned Books Club
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 […]
Latino students: California business relies on their educational and economic success
By Rob Lapsley, San Jose Mercury News To keep our economy competitive and growing, we need to ensure that Californians achieve the level of education necessary for the workforce of […]
Latina Mothers Play Key Role in Daughters’ Education
By Hispanically Speaking News Latino mothers play a decisive role in how their daughters fare at school, experts said during a panel discussion of a new report. Taking part in […]
Listen to the students, policy-makers and pundits
This article was suggested by Taquista Ray Salazar. By Grant Wiggins, Granted, and … Readers of this blog will recall that I routinely look at issues of student engagement via […]
For Latinos, Awareness isn’t Enough. We need Understanding.
By Steve Moya, NewsTaco Those in the communication field must always understand their job is not complete when people are moved to a basic awareness of something–say an issue. It is necessary […]
Latino Students Show Modest Gains On Nation’s Latest Report Card
By Kate Sheehy, Fronteras The Nation got a new report card today evaluating reading and math proficiency among fourth and eighth graders. Modest gains by Latino students contributed to improvement in […]
The Identity Crisis of Mexican Americans
By Rodolfo Acuña, Counterpunch The debate as to what to name Chicana/o Studies will have future repercussions. The proposals are not new; they are not innovative; and they are symptomatic […]
