Education + Did You Know Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
Hispanics are 9% of the Virginia’s schoolchildren, but 5% of gifted students.
October 26, 2008
Did You Know? Miami-Dade has 50,859 ESOL students (15% of the district’s student body) and in Broward has 24,631 ESOL students (almost 10% of all students) – Florida
September 15, 2008
One in five—approximately 10 million—public school students are Latino. And the proportion of Hispanic school-aged children is expected to grow by 166 percent by 2050, quickly outpacing the 4 percent expected growth of non-Hispanic children.
June 19, 2008
Did You Know? Nearly half of the graduating Hispanic student population did not pass the Utah Basic Skills and Competency Test in 2008
June 9, 2008
Did You Know? Nationwide, about 20 percent of students were Hispanic in 2006, the latest year for which figures were available for ethnic groups, up from 11 percent in the late 1980s.
June 4, 2008
Did You Know? Only 53.6 percent of Latino seniors – Utah’s largest minority group – graduated in 2005. That’s lower than the national average of 57.8 percent and about 8 percentage points lower than the graduation rate for Utah’s Latino seniors the year before.
May 14, 2008
Did You Know? Officials say 90% of the Latino students at Postville high school aren’t in class today and a third of all the students in kindergarten through eighth grade are absent. – Impact of raid – Iowa
May 9, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanic women are less educated than non-Hispanic women. Some 36% have less than a high school education, compared with 10% of non-Hispanic women. Nearly half (49%) of all Hispanic women immigrants have less than a high school education; a similar share (46%) of native-born Hispanic women have at least some college education.
April 10, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanic high school graduates are expected to surge by nearly 50 percent by 2018 in Florida.
March 24, 2008
Did You Know? A new report says that in 2015, the number of Hispanic students graduating from Utah high schools will be more than double (136%) what it was in 2005.
March 20, 2008
Did You Know? The total number of Latino students statewide is 128,993 and over the last five years Latino student enrollments jumped by 22.7 percent in Massachusetts
Did You Know? Hispanic children make up 47% of the 4.7 million students in Texas public classrooms.
March 18, 2008
Did You Know? More than a third of Boston’s 56,000 students are Latino; more than 40 percent of them are learning English as a second language. And since the state eliminated bilingual education in 2002, these students have fallen further behind.
March 5, 2008
Did You Know? Sometime in the coming months, a single music label, Universal Music, will control almost half of the U.S. Latin music marketplace. – because of recent laws
January 30, 2008
Did You Know? The starting salary for a teacher in Puerto Rico is $19,200 — lower than any U.S. state and about a third less than the average on the mainland.
January 22, 2008
Did You Know? In Prince George’s County (Maryland), Bladensburg Elementary School has gone from majority black to majority Hispanic in less than seven years.
January 11, 2008
More than 40% of Mexican nationals over age 25 living in the U.S. had less than a ninth-grade education, according to 2005 data compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center.
September 26, 2007
Did You Know? Fourth- and eighth-graders’ math scores increased, but white students are still scoring higher than their African American and Hispanic classmates, especially in California.
September 16, 2007
Did You Know? Only 50 to 60 percent of Latinos who start high school in Minnesota get a diploma
September 12, 2007
Did You Know? In Massachucetts, 91% of white students passed both MCAS exams on their first try, as did 73% of Black students, 90% of Asian students and 67% of Hispanic students.
August 29, 2007
Did You Know? Record Number of Illinois Students take AP Exams – black and Hispanic students up more than 30 percent
August 21, 2007
Did You Know? In California, public adult schools are responsible for 75 percent of adult ESL classes, which also are provided on a smaller scale through libraries, community colleges and nonprofit organizations.
August 20, 2007
Did You Know? More than half of black and Hispanic applicants for teaching jobs in Massachusetts fail a crucial state licensing test
August 16, 2007
Did You Know? The average ACT composite score for Hispanic U.S. high school graduates rose in 2007 for the second time in the past five years, as the number of Hispanic students taking the ACT reached another record high. The percentage of Hispanic test-takers who are ready for college-level coursework also grew.
July 23, 2007
Did You Know? Academic courses in high-Latino high schools are nearly twice as likely to be taught by teachers who lack a degree in the subject they teach compared with classes in high schools with few Latino students.
Did You Know? A study just released by Education Week found that just over half of Latino 9th graders graduate from high school with their peers.
Did You Know? Almost 5 million of the nation’s Latino students attend schools in states that have set proficiency standards so low in fourth grade reading that they fall below even the most basic level on a national assessment.
June 14, 2007
Did You Know?In Alabama, 37 percent of Hispanic students graduate High School
June 13, 2007
Did You Know? About half of Hispanic high school students in Indiana graduated
June 5, 2007
Did You Know? In 2006 only half of Hispanic 10th graders in Texas knew basic math skills, compared with nearly 75 percent of white students
June 4, 2007
Did You Know? The number of Hispanic students in Alabama public schools increased by 11 percent during the recently ended school year
May 22, 2007
Did You Know? In Ohio’s nine largest urban school districts, the graduation rate is 71 percent for Hispanic males
Did You Know? The graduation rate for Hispanic students increased to 50.8%, up from 41.1% in 2002 in New York City
April 4, 2007
Did You Know? In Oregon 8.4 percent of Hispanic students dropout of high school
March 26, 2007
Did You Know? Fewer than 10 percent of Hispanic children had mothers who were college graduates, compared with 30 percent of white children
March 25, 2007
Did You Know? About 40 percent of Latino 3- and 4-year-olds (and 5-year-olds not yet in kindergarten) are enrolled in prekindergarten programs, compared with about 60 percent of white and African- American children
Did You Know? 1 of every 5 children in the U.S. younger than 8 (about 6.8 million) was Hispanic in 2000
March 18, 2007
Did You Know? At 12.4 percent, Nashua has the largest population of Hispanic students in the state of New Hampshire
March 6, 2007
Did You Know? Nearly half of Hispanic high school freshmen who entered in 2002 failed to graduate four years later, according to Department of Education data. Massachucetts
March 2, 2007
Did You Know? English is the second language for approximately 5.5 million students in the United States, nearly one-tenth of the total U.S. student body
February 1, 2007
Did You Know? Nearly one in six students in Oregon public schools this year is Latino
Did You Know? Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System has almost 17,500 Hispanic students, about 14 percent of its student body. – North Carolina
December 12, 2006
Did You Know? Only one in four of University of Texas’ top 10 percent freshmen is African American or Hispanic.
December 5, 2006
Did You Know? In 2005, only 9 percent of Latinos 25 and over in California held a bachelor’s degree or higher.
November 21, 2006
Did You Know? Only 20 percent of Latino fourth graders reached proficient or advanced reading levels, and in the city, only 46 percent of Latino students graduate from high school after four years – New York City
Did You Know? Only 12 percent of Hispanics have finished college, compared to 28 percent of whites and 18 percent of blacks
Did You Know? In the past five years, enrollment of Hispanic females has risen more than 20 percent in community colleges in Connecticut.
November 17, 2006
Did You Know? Between 1993 and 2004, the proportion of Hispanic/Latino biology majors who applied to medical school dropped from 75 percent to 39 percent
November 2, 2006
There are at least seven Latina Presidents of universities and colleges in Texas
October 30, 2006
“In spring 2007, more than 28,000 Latino students will graduate from Florida high schools. But only about 24 percent of them are likely to attain a college education by age 25,”
October 27, 2006
High school dropouts earned an average of $19,169, while people with advanced college degrees made an average of $78,093.
October 19, 2006
Did You Know? For the Classes of 2000 through 2003, only about 40% of Latino males earned a high school diploma within six years. Among females, just over half of Latino females graduated – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
October 18, 2006
Did You Know? Hispanics are the single group of the American population that have lower access to college today than they did 30 years ago
October 17, 2006
Did You Know? The SAT median for black students admitted to the University of Michigan’s main undergraduate college was 1160 in 2005, compared to 1260 for Hispanics, 1350 for whites and 1400 for Asians
Did You Know? Only 60 percent of Hispanic students graduated on time during the 2004-2005 school year in Washington
October 15, 2006
Did You Know? Less than 2 percent of our San Antonio’s Latino high school students are likely to earn bachelor’s degrees – Texas
October 13, 2006
Did You Know? College Consumes One Third of Annual Median Household Income for Hispanic Households
October 11, 2006
Did You Know? 20 percent of the people that have degrees in Mexico are without employment
October 2, 2006
Did You Know? More than 35,000 adults were enrolled in free English lessons at community colleges in North Carolina last year
Did You Know? Hispanics will account for a fifth of South Carolina graduates in 12 years
September 14, 2006
Did You Know? In the Providence School Department, of the 26,000 students enrolled, 58 percent are Hispanic – Rhode Island
Did You Know? The total enrollment of Hispanic students at Boise State University in Idaho is 1,154 (a 9% increase from last year)
September 9, 2006
Last year, Hispanics represented 3.9 percent of the enrollment of students in the almost 250 theology schools
September 6, 2006
Did You Know? Sixty-seven percent of Anglo students, 44 percent of Hispanic students and 47 percent of black students use the Internet at school
August 25, 2006
Did You Know? In the U.S. only 6 percent of students pursuing a baccalaureate degree in one of the agriculture-related disciplines is of Hispanic origin
August 3, 2006
Did You Know? Less than 10% of teachers in Dallas are Hispanic.
February 1, 2006
Did you know? In fall 2005, there were more than 8,500 Hispanic students enrolled at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), making up about 25 percent of the university’s overall headcount enrollment of 34,547. It is the highest enrollment of Hispanic students the campus has had over the last five years.
