Review: ‘East of Salinas,’ on PBS, Tells a Migrant Boy’s Story
Review: ‘East of Salinas,’ on PBS, Tells a Migrant Boy’s Story
*The reviewer isnt kind, but I think it may be for a good reason. This is a well told story about one immigrant boy. But there are 2 million like […]
Latino education decline a looming Texas disaster
*Sosa outlines a seven piece plan to change education in Texas for the better: teach college expectation in school; be open to technological change; experiment; reward best schools and teachers; […]
Graduation gap continues to narrow for Latino high school students
*Nowhere near where it should be, but the trend is encouraging. When you consider what a high school diploma does to prepare a young person for today’s workforce, the road […]
‘East of Salinas’ Profiles an Undocumented 8-Year-Old Math Whiz
*This Independent Lens documentary airs December 28th on PBS. It’s about the 8 year-old son of migrant farm workers who happens to also be a gifted math whiz. VL By Andrew […]
Analysis: Texas narrowly defends one-man, one-vote apportionment stance before Supreme Court
*After yesterday’s epic day at the U.S. Supreme Court where the concept of one-man, one-vote was challenged by a well organized group of extreme right-wing activists, that same group returned […]
Affirmative Action at UT and Beyond at Stake in Court Case
*Today’s big case at the Supreme Court is the Evenwel v Abbott suit, where the one-man, one-vote concept is at stake. Tomorrow won’t be any less important. The issue of […]
Birth rates among Latinas at an all-time low, as their prosperity continues to grow
*Jody Aguis Vallejo, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California, says that Latinas “are finally joining the trend of delaying having children in order to graduate college or […]
Good reasons teachers stay in a challenging, unhappy profession
*Ray Salazar does here what he does best: challenge us to think differently about something we think in rote, prescribed ways. So, what makes a happy teacher? This is good reading. […]
Latinos, Blacks Face New Problem: ‘Math Misplacement’
*A known problem with a new name, “math misplacement.” It’s when “middle-school algebra teachers [hold] back black and Latino kids from advancing to ninth-grade geometry, even though they are doing […]
In Houston’s Gifted Program, Critics Say Blacks And Latinos Are Overlooked
*So Latino kids have a better chance of being identified as gifted if they were white or Asian? According to this report this twisted logic pervades the nation’s school systems. […]
