Posted on: February 18th, 2008
Filed Under: [ * Premium Press Release * ] [ Education ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Press Releases ]
Tags: population, student
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS:
Dr. Lilia I. Bartolomé (781) 789-6381
Ms. Verna Green Bennett (972) 444-9296
Dr. Martín M. Ahumada (520) 743-2355
Dr. Francisco Villarruel (517) 353-6617
Mr. Alfonso Valenzuela (520) 882-2855
Presidential candidates courting the increasingly influential “Latino vote” need to embrace the one issue the U.S. Hispanic community has long been passionate about—and almost universally “united” around: Dramatically improving the Hispanic experience in U.S. education. Contrary to what many in our nation have been misled to believe, the U.S. Hispanic community is far from being a “monolithic” one—in its political views and party affiliations, in its religious practices, in its positions on illegal immigration and the war with Iraq, on its philosophies for “fixing” our nation’s economy, and even on its racial, ethnic, and other social identities. Yet most—if not all—of the members of this young and rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population are truly passionate about, and widely united around, the imperative of dramatically improving Hispanic education at the K-12 and collegiate levels. Presidential candidates wanting the Latino vote will be well-served by embracing this imperative in a very public way.
On February 22, 2008, in Dallas, Texas, some of the nation’s leading thinkers will come together in a historic National Summit on Hispanic Education to forge a bold new vision and concrete “action agendas” not only to transform the future of Hispanic education in our nation, but also to help forge America’s 21st Century workforce through a new paradigm of “career development” for minority students. This unprecedented one-day national media event is challenging the country’s leaders—from the White House and Congress, the corporate and government sectors, the world of philanthropy, the multiple arenas of education, and the national media—to become major players in the immediate and full implementation of new national vehicles and concrete strategies to begin transforming the teaching and learning taking place in our country’s thousands of (poorly performing) Hispanic-serving K-12 schools, to begin shaping the careers of our nation’s minorities (or “emerging majority”), and to begin preparing a new generation of Hispanic higher education leaders and scholars. These “action agendas” will be the unique and urgently needed mission and work of the National Association for Hispanic Education (NAHE), the Council on Career Development for Minorities (CCDM), and the National Center for Hispanic Higher Education (NCHHE).
“We can hardly think of national “action agendas” of greater consequence to the future of our country,” say Dr. Martin Miguel Ahumada and Ms. Verna Green Bennett, who are the architects and chairs of the unprecedented national Summit being held in Dallas this February 22.
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