Education + Essentials Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 21, 2009
“They” Are “Us”: The Devastating Effects of Broken Immigration Policy on Children in Immigrant Families
November 4, 2009
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.
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 12, 2009
In New Mexico, a majority Hispanic state, a 54% high school dropout rate translated to 13,800 young people in 2008. – Meeting addresses Hispanic education ‘crisis’
October 7, 2009
Pew Hispanic Report: The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood
Pew Hispanic Report: Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap
September 30, 2009
Latinos must use political capital towards demanding passage of the REAL Act – (very good read)
September 29, 2009
Amid lagging scores of Latino students, San Jose High Academy models success
September 28, 2009
Report: Hispanic Achievement Gap Persists – Hispanics 2 to 3 times less likely than Whites to receive baccalaureate degree (link to report at permalink)
September 1, 2009
The latest data show that 41% of Latina students do not graduate on time with a standard high school diploma – - New MALDEF Report Highlights Latina Students Face Greater Challenges Than Counterparts
August 27, 2009
SATs: Hispanics scoring better, but lag in college admission tests
August 22, 2009
Only 20% of nation’s teacher training institutions address ELL needs because, they say, there is no requirement to do so. There are over 5 million English Language Learners in our public schools, a group that has grown by 60% in the past few years.
July 31, 2009
Hispanic enrollment at colleges and universities in Texas would need to almost double by 2015 to meet the state’s higher education goals – Poverty, lack of health insurance, other social ills complicate the challenge.
June 25, 2009
Hispanics make up majorities at 7 Cleveland public schools, prompting call for special help
June 22, 2009
A rising force in Hispanic Chicago UNO works within system, gets $98 million for charter schools
April 15, 2009
Nearly 75% of illegal immigrants’ children were born in the USA and are citizens, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. – (nice interactive map)
March 24, 2009
School Matters: Putting an Accent on Latino Students’ Needs – interview with Patricia Gándara, a professor of education at UCLA, and co-author of “The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies.”
March 20, 2009
Mendez v. Westminster Case at Center of New Curriculum Children across California could soon learn about desegregation, migration, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and more
March 17, 2009
Where’s Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil. A new Brazilian geography text book for sixth-grade students doesn’t even include the South American country on the map.
March 5, 2009
Roughly one-fourth of the nation’s kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023 + about one-fifth of all K-12 students
February 18, 2009
Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids’ lives in Venezuela. Watch this video as he shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a big impact in the US and beyond.
December 20, 2008
U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice has ordered Texas to take immediate steps to improve bilingual education programs — even as state officials fight to postpone what they call costly measures.
December 10, 2008
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it will give nearly $70 million in grants to aid Hispanic education efforts concentrating in New York City, New Mexico and California.
November 18, 2008
Mexican schoolteachers victims of extortion racket – Gangs threatening teachers to hand over Christmas bonuses or see harm done to their families or students
October 28, 2008
Alcohol advertising is heavier around schools with 20 percent or more Hispanic students than near schools with a smaller Hispanic population, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education and the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.
October 23, 2008
More Than 80% of Latino Children Unable To Read at or Above Grade Level by 4th Grade
October 15, 2008
One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for making academic advances. – The Brownsville Independent School District serves nearly 50,000 students — 98 percent Hispanic and 43 percent learning English.
September 25, 2008
The City of Manassas and the Manassas school system reached a settlement with the Equal Rights Center this week, almost a year after the District-based organization filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming it unfairly targeted Hispanics while enforcing zoning codes meant to curb overcrowding. – Virginia
September 24, 2008
Rhode Island students score poorly on state’s first science test – Just 6% of Hispanic students and 8% of black students scored proficient, compared with 30% of white students.
September 22, 2008
Hispanic law students help others up Offering practical advice and serving as role models, they urge high schoolers to aim for college – (Great photo) Corina Rocha, Siria Gutierrez and Leslie Nino Fidance who lead UNLV’s La Voz, an organization of Hispanic law students, recently named No. 1 in the country.
August 26, 2008
One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students
Where do Hispanic Public School Students Live? – Learning the Language’s take on the latest Pew report
August 20, 2008
Twenty months after stunning Boston by backing out of the superintendent of schools post, Manuel J. Rivera has quit as deputy secretary of education for the State of New York.
August 17, 2008
A federal judge ruled Friday that a Wichita Catholic school policy requiring students to speak only English didn’t break any civil rights laws.
August 12, 2008
Overall, 43% of Hispanic students in 2007 graduated in four years, compared to 41% in 2006 and 37.4% in 2005, an increase of 5.6 points. – New York City (while an increase is encouraging the percentage is still under 50%!!!)
August 10, 2008
Measure Limiting English Learning to Cost Oregonians a Quarter of a Billion Dollars
August 8, 2008
Immigrant Integration, or Assimilation? The topic of “immigrant integration” has become a buzz phrase here in the nation’s capital, but some continue to prefer to use the word “assimilation” instead.
July 30, 2008
A Florida woman who has been married to both the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and the creator of a notorious white supremacist Web site is working as a spokeswoman for a school that aims to lift underprivileged black and Hispanic children out of poverty.
July 29, 2008
Texas will probably appeal a court ruling mandating a new language program for an estimated 140,000 junior high and high school students who don’t have command of the English language, state officials said Monday.
July 28, 2008
Still, there are issues in which a Latino lens slides into place. Education is one. It doesn’t surprise me that Latinos consistently rank education as the No. 1 issue. It must be, when 30 percent to 50 percent of Hispanic students are dropping out of high school and Latinos are the largest and fastest growing population in the country. A plus B equals disaster.
July 26, 2008
A federal judge on Friday gave the state of Texas until the end of January to come up with a plan to improve education programs for secondary school students with limited proficiency in English, criticizing the state education agency for “failing to ensure equal education opportunities in all schools.”
July 17, 2008
24% of California high school students drop out – 30.3% of Hispanics!!!
July 16, 2008
Why do Asian students generally get higher marks than Latinos? Lincoln High students have candid ideas. – Los Angeles
July 13, 2008
LULAC Receives $1 Million Grant From AT&T
July 9, 2008
Hispanic Heritage Foundation and Staples Foundation for Learning Announce Continued Collaboration and Recognition of Teachers
June 30, 2008
Pew Hispanic Center Report: The Role of Schools in the English Language Learner Achievement Gap
June 23, 2008
Latino children are behind in preschool enrollment – California
June 19, 2008
Learning the Language: Anti-Bilingual-Education Initiative to Be on November Ballot in Oregon
Did You Know? Nearly half of the graduating Hispanic student population did not pass the Utah Basic Skills and Competency Test in 2008
June 2, 2008
Bilingual bee: Spelling is so fun they do it twice – asked to spell words in Spanish, including the accent marks. They then had to translate the word and spell it in English. – Houston
May 22, 2008
What will become of Postville’s undocumented students? – Iowa
May 20, 2008
Families sue St. Anne over ‘English only’ – English must be spoken at all times during school day – Wichita, Kansas
May 15, 2008
State program helped janitor become teacher – Daniel Silva in Chicago
“It’s as if they had five kids, maybe 10 kids, die in their class because they’re not there anymore. That’s what it’s like…it’s like a natural disaster,” Walz said. – Postville principal still seeing impact of immigration raid
May 14, 2008
Learning the Language: An Immigration Raid and a Subpoena in Postville, Iowa
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 8, 2008
Are Immigration Authorities Going After School Children Now? – If true, then it’s hard to imagine the cruelty that resides in these people’s hearts
Hispanics’ discipline not racist, state says – (elementary students made to eat on floor & somehow only Hispanics didn’t get trays) – New Jersey
