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November 20, 2009
Black, Hispanic Parents Say They Don’t Feel Welcome In Schools – Hartford, Connecticut
The Right to a Great Education – Advocating for Quality Education for All – By Alvaro Huerta
Guest Voz: First Latino President-elect of American Bar Association speaks out about civic education
Yeri Lopez: Student loan rules hamper best and brightest
November 19, 2009
Hispanic leaders in Texas on Wednesday assailed a draft social studies curriculum under consideration by the State Board of Education, saying it woefully ignores the role that Hispanics have played in shaping state and national history.
The University of Panama indefinitely suspended classes on Wednesday after confrontations between students and police during a protest against alleged U.S. involvement in plans to build new military installations.
Over the last 3 years, high schools that received the lowest marks from the city have been the ones with the highest percentages of poor, black and Hispanic students, despite an evaluation system that was meant to equalize differences among student bodies, according to an analysis by The New York Times of school grades released this week.
A legislator from El Paso has criticized proposed history and social studies standards for public schools as being unfair to Hispanics. – Rep. Norma Chavez raised the issue Wednesday in Austin before the State Board of Education.
November 18, 2009
Hispanics are 9% of the Virginia’s schoolchildren, but 5% of gifted students.
Congressman Raúl Grijalva talks to his daughter Marisa about his mother’s influence on his education. – new Historias from StoryCorp
Young Latino Children Throughout Los Angeles County to Benefit from IBM Donation of Educational Computer Learning Centers
Deporting undocumented students affects the chances for legal return if Congress doesn’t address it in immigration reform bill
The Utah Hispanic Leadership Foundation will present academic scholarships to 51 Latino students at the group’s annual holiday gala Friday.
Massachusetts immigrant tuition bill to get new push
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies announces the publication of the first fieldwork-based study of the impacts of the U.S. economic crisis on Mexican migration to the United States
November 16, 2009
Hispanic College Fund Opens Applications for $2 Million in 2010 Scholarships
Hispanic Graduate Students Benefit from Online Education Grant – University of St. Thomas in Houston strives to improve retention and graduation rates for Hispanic graduate students. UST received a $2.8 million education grant to offer two options
Speaking Out: Students Support Latino Studies Program – Cornell University
A Chicago City Council committee wants federal officials to halt deportation proceedings against immigrant students. – The Human Relations Committed on Friday approved a resolution urging the Department of Homeland Security to allow immigrant students to stay in the U.S. – Rigo Padilla
Oregon universities try to recruit more Latino students – In 2007, Latinos made up nearly 12% of the 12th-grade class and less than 6% of freshmen in the university system. About 20% of first-graders that year were Latino.
Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School officials have worked to make sure their school’s English as a Second Language (ESL) students’ needs are met. The school received 12 mini-laptops last month to help those students with their online ESL courses.- Kinston, North Carolina
Officials at U.T. Permian Basin are hoping to making this weekend’s Hispanic Youth Summit a regular event. – More than 200 high school students from around the Basin and Big Bend have been in Odessa for the Summit.
Program helps Latino families bond over books – A literacy class in Los Osos teaches parents to develop reading routines with their kids while improving their own skills and English language abilities at the same time – California
Hundreds of young people demonstrated on Friday inside city hall to ask for an end to the deporting of undocumented immigrants, in particular a young Mexican man attending the University of Illinois at Chicago. – Rigo Padilla
November 13, 2009
Santa Barbara School Board Weighs In on Future of Cesar Chavez Charter School
Juliet V. Garcia, the president of University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Ten Best College Presidents of 2009
Longtime Rutgers Professor, Community Activist, Gay-Rights Pioneer Hilda Hidalgo Loses Cancer Fight
ELL makes a difference – After working as a social worker for several years, Patti Kuenzie made the switch to teaching. Now, an English Language Learners teacher for the River Fall School District, Kuenzie said she’s is happier than she’s ever been and doesn’t look back.
Durham Latinos will likely have a better pipeline to President Obama after weighing in Thursday on how to improve education for Hispanic Americans. – Leading a ”community conversation” at El Centro Hispano on Main Street was Juan Sepulveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Ill. Board of Education Chair Ruiz, State Senator Lightford & State Representative
More than 1,200 students are registered to attend the 10th Annual Latino Youth Conference hosted by the Latin American Association in Atlanta.
November 12, 2009
Hispanic student reunion scheduled Saturday at Texas State University
University of Central Florida Professor Luis Martínez-Fernández was recently named to the College Board’s governing body
Texan Students Debate Financial Aid for Illegal Immigrants
Dallas-Fort Worth programs helping Hispanic mothers find teaching moments
Fingernail Shaped Moons – a short narrative of what led me to become an educator by Jesse Tijerina
Juan Sepulveda of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans will be at El Centro Hispano center in Durham on Thursday to speak with residents and local leaders about the status of Hispanic education.
The scheduled appearance next week of an anti-illegal immigration activist at a student-sponsored forum on the University of Nevada, Reno campus is causing outrage among some faculty, students and members of the community.
November 11, 2009
Playful Trolls Introduce Children to Spanish and English in New Educational Computer Adventure
Hartford-based Hispanic newspaper Identidad Latina has named a UConn Master’s candidate “Student of the Year” in their fifth-annual Latino de Oro Awards. – Robert Cruz
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Paul Espinosa, professors in ASU’s Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, are recipients of awards from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. The awards recognize energy, expertise and remarkable contributions to the Hispanic community.
Four Latino Angelenos win scholarships for math, science
Residents tell how to improve Latino education opportunity – Yakima, WA
A new program is helping Latino families in Los Osos. The Latino Family Literacy Program is an eight week program. It’s the second time this year it’s been conducted through the San Luis Coastal Unified School District.
Antonio Cepeda-Benito, dean of faculties for Texas A&M University, has been named in Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the Top 100 Influential Hispanics.
November 10, 2009
Undocumented students mobilize to win legal status
An exchange program between the University of Guadalajara and the University of Alberta is at risk because Edmonton students are hesitant to study in Mexico given the ongoing drug wars in parts of the country, Mexican students say.
Miami Dade College to train Mexican Red Cross workers
Hofstra University Cultural Center Bilingual Conference on Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Writer, Philospher and Poet, to Attract International Scholarly Participation
Mastering English is the key to achievement for Hispanic children – (I am not agreeing or disagreeing but interesting)
November 7, 2009
George Mason University Study Shows Deep Anti-Immigration Sentiment in Pockets of Prince William County
November 6, 2009
“English as a Second Language” in Alabama schools
LULAC leader says new Arlington school should be named for Cesar Chavez
A comedian with a serious delivery – Los Angeles comedian Ernie G encourages Hispanic students to strive for college
November 5, 2009
Valencia Community College’s Osceola campus was recognized by the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities with its Outstanding HACU-Member Institution Award, in recognition of the college’s efforts in advancing the mission and goals of HACU.
Hispanic students face language barrier challenges in Maryland
FIU to develop model programs to keep Hispanics in college – Although 57% of non-Hispanic white students nationwide graduate within six years; only 46 % of Hispanics do so.
ALMAS program provides Henry Sibley’s Latino students with bridge to a brighter future – Minnesota
A top Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) official confirmed that officers were conducting a training exercise at CSUN that involved members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) earlier this semester. – Members said they were targeted and profiled by LAPD officers during their first meeting on Sept. 2. & that they were followed, harassed and intimidated by “undercover police officers” during a ceremony to welcome first-time freshmen to their organization.
November 4, 2009
Study finds Lehigh Valley’s Hispanic students are progressing – But struggles persist in areas such as reading. Valley area review is called ‘eye-opening’ – Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley public schools have experienced growth in population of Latino students over past decade – Pennsylvania
Miriam Flores is a 42-year-old Mexican immigrant who has taken the cause of English as a second language to the nation’s highest courts.
NLEI and NLU partner to meet Latino community’s specific educational needs – Illinois
November 2, 2009
Palm Beach Community College officials want every one of their students with Latino roots to update their academic records and document their ethnicity.
For Tomorrow’s Latino Students: No Typewriter Ribbons Needed
Texas needs Spanish-speaking social workers
High School is Named After Oscar de la Hoya in Boyle Heights
October 30, 2009
Salinas Latinos target of educational TV show
SoMoCoCAT Offers Latino Farmworker Communities Free Digital Media Training – California
Latino-based Fraternal organizations to host Unity Summit
October 29, 2009
STUDY FINDS ACADEMIC BENEFITS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS WHO TRANSITION INTO MAINSTREAM CLASSROOMS – Nearly 30% of Los Angeles Unified School District students aren’t reclassified by the 8th grade, according to the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute
Moving Beyond Borders from University of Illinois Press – examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies
UCLA Students Lobby for DREAM Act
October 28, 2009
Minnesota State is thinking about the future with its plans to build an on-campus Latino center.
University of Illinois at Chicago sociologists have received a $420,000 National Science Foundation grant to study how local communities respond to the issue of immigration.
Georgia colleges pitch education to Latinos
Immigrant Children Lost in Education Reform – interview with Ruby Takanishi, president and chief executive officer of Foundation for Child Development
Washington State University Doctoral Researcher Documents Skills of Latino Child Care Providers
October 27, 2009
A Guatemalan grandmother’s secret is revealed – A columnist’s recent writings on illiteracy lead to a surprising discovery much closer to home.
88 students earn honors for research as SACNAS conference concludes
Judge Who Ordered Texas to Educate Undocumented Students Dies – U.S. Senior District Judge William Wayne Justice
Guatemalans, Hondurans More Likely to Have Limited-English Proficiency
October 26, 2009
Latinos lag in skills as toddlers, studies show – Poor, immigrant Latinas have healthy babies but by age 2 or 3, their toddlers begin to lag behind white middle-class children in vocabulary, listening and problem-solving skills, according to two new studies.
800 students thriving in dual-language curriculum at DiLoreto Magnet School – New Britian, CT
October 17, 2009
A book that aims to explain the business and culture of drug trafficking playing out in El Paso and Juárez was released today. – “Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez” is written by University of Texas at El Paso professor Howard Campbell.
Cabrillo College has been awarded one of the most competitive grants in the country, the Title V Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant by the U.S. Department of Education. – $2.8M grant for transitioning students at Hispanic-serving institutions
Junot Díaz at Notre Dame
Analysis of Martinez vs. Regents of the University of California, a case before the California Supreme Court involving whether undocumented residents of California are entitled to in-state college tuition.
The Howard County School System and an advocacy group that focuses on Hispanic student achievement plan to renew a partnership Friday with the hopes of lowering dropout rates and encouraging academic success. – Maryland
IBM Launches Nationwide Initiative to Support Early Education in Hispanic Communities
CULTURAL DIVIDE: Migrant students find hard time fitting in – Every year, migrant workers and their families travel from Texas to Manchester’s DuRussel Potato Farm to harvest vegetables, living in housing provided by the farm personnel. – Minnesota
Less than a year after speaking at a Harvard University student conference, the head of an anti-illegal immigration movement had his invitation to speak at a similar forum tomorrow rescinded following a student uproar over his aggressive position on immigration. – Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project
Guest Voz: Former NCES commissioner finds nation’s black and Latino students worse off because of No Child Left Behind
New study shows most Latino students drop out of high school for economic need
October 15, 2009
Leaders in Science Research, Mentoring, and Teaching honored by SACNAS
Hispanics Increasingly Leaving Established U.S. Gateway Communities – new research by the University of New Hampshire
October 14, 2009
1969: Chicano Movement Rising – Notes on Raza history in East LA, Oct 14 at Cal State LA
Three lives and a literate city’s shame – Julia Rodriguez, Juan Contreras and Mercedes Meza couldn’t read or write. For years they got by with the help of friends and good memories for the sorts of sights that differentiated streets.
The seventh annual Latino Youth Summit is set for Friday in the Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion at Saint Martin’s University – Olympia, WA
In its September issue, Hispanic Business Magazine named Cornell’s College of Engineering the No. 4 graduate school nationwide for Hispanic students.
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