Education
Success for All Students.
Public schools are largely unprepared to teach and guide Latino students. These students face some of the most critical issues in the school system: sky-high dropout rates and low achievement. What can schools do to keep students in the classroom? A veteran education expert who rose up from inner city poverty to earn a Harvard [...]
Men against domestic violence.
Boys who witness violence in their homes are more likely to perpetuate this behavior as grown men and abuse their partners or wives. A growing movement by men seeks to change harmful attitudes and break this dangerous cycle. In this edition, we talk with two experts about how to engage fathers, brothers, friends and compadres [...]
Latino to Lead Arizona Schools? Also, Presunto Culpable.
Tucson, in Arizona, sparked widespread protests after it banned from public schools books by Chicano authors and a Mexican American studies curriculum. Statewide, Attorney General Tom Horne has stalled efforts to allow undocumented students pay in-state tuition. Now, a Latino professor vies for the top education post in the state: Superintendent of Public Instruction. What’s [...]
California leaders debate how to keep students in school
(Español) Los estudiantes suspendidos o expulsados tiene tres veces más posibilidades de que se metan en problemas y terminen en el sistema judicial.
(Español) Obliga la Fiscalía de NY reembolsar 2.7 millones de dólares a 22 mil estudiantes
(Español) Los planes de Markel fueron promovidos y aprobados por las universidades en las que se ofrecieron, y en algunas universidades a los estudiantes se les requirió inscribirse en el plan de seguro médico de Markel, a menos que demostraran tener otro seguro comparable.
(Español) ‘Fábrica de estudiantes genio’ hace eco en radioescuchas
(Español) “Al estar escuchando tu programa acerca de este maestro mexicano que ha tenido un gran éxito en matemáticas, yo he estado leyendo un libro acerca de negocios y lo comparo y me doy cuenta que lo que el maestro hizo es aplicar la educación creativa”.
GMO Tortillas on the Table?
Mexico’s staple food for thousands of years, maize, is at the center of a battle pitting agricultural giant Monsanto and local farmers trying to preserve the natural diversity of the plant and food in general. A Mexican judge recently suspended all planting of genetically modified strains of corn and blocked Monsanto field trials of GMO [...]
Deported child has difficulty adjusting to life in Mexico
Rodrigo Guzmán personifies the story of thousands of people who migrated to the United States and then after many years found their reality broken when they were deported to their home countries. But it is also a unique story. Rodrigo is ten years old. When the boy and his parents were refused entry to the U.S. after living here many years, Rodrigo’s classmates in Berkeley, California raised their voices in protest. Our correspondent Raúl Silva found Rodrigo in his new home in Mexico, where he is finding it difficult to integrate into his new reality.
(Español) En defensa de la educación pública internacional
(Español) Se realizará una primera protesta este 10 de diciembre en todas las oficinas de Naciones Unidas, a donde acudirán maestros y trabajadores universitarios.
(Español) Fabrica de estudiantes genio (segunda y última)
(Español) “Seguimos preparando nuevas formas de trabajo, pues porque cada grupo es diferente, tienen diferentes situaciones… pero vamos a darles nuestro mejor esfuerzo para que ellos también logren salir adelante como sus compañeros anteriores”
