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Regional Hispanic Women’s Conference
On January 12, the Lubbock based Hispanic Association of Women (HAW) will host it annual Regional Hispanic Women’s Conference that has this year adopted the mission statement to impart a source of information, inspiration, empowerment, well being, ....
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Hispanic College Fund Call for Applicants
Hispanic College Fund Call for Applicants
Washington, DC--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--January 8, 2007--Scholarship applications for the 2008-2009 academic year are available online at http://www.HispanicFund.org.
Scholarship amounts range from $500 - $10,....
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Prison Pipe Line
By Armando Gonzalez
Parents must be vigilant and very carefull with how the teachers and principals treat our children in school.In the short time that I taught High School in two different area Schools, and observed teachers and ca....
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WHAT PART OF DIVERSITY DOES THE UNIVERSITY NOT UNDERSTAND?
By Bidal Agüero
Our new pulse of the Hispanic Community question of the week asked about recently named Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance and his concern or lack of concern for the Hispanic Community. The question pointed out that “To date, Chancel....
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Educating English Language Learners - Everyone’s Crisis
Today, more than five million English language learners, or ELLs, are enrolled in this nation's public schools. That's up from just two million a decade ago.
The first language of the vast majority of these students is Spanish. In fact, the....
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Author’s Attack on Latino Parents Creates Furor
Former U.S. Rep. Herman Badillo, once a champion of federal education programs benefiting Latinos, has stirred a storm in his home state of New York with his claim that Hispanics do not care as much about education as do other immigrant groups.....
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Over 120,000 Texas Students Failed to Graduate in 2006;
The graduation crisis in Texas
has reached a boiling point
with about one-third of the state’s public high school students “more than 120,000 young people failing to graduate with a regular diploma in 2006,” according to a new analysis conducted....
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Anger in the Classroom
After a long absence from the United States and the classroom, I've returned to rooms filled with angry Mexican-American faces, boys mainly.
I see anger in the way they scrawl their names on assignments. I see it in their threatening bod....
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NEARLY A MILLION LATINOS SERVED BY TWO-YEAR COLLEGES
Even though Debru Petrov, a 33-year-old student at East Los Angeles College, landed a paid journalism internship, worked part-time for the college, and attended classes, she still spent three weeks with no electricity in her studio apartment bec....
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CERCA DE UN MILLON DE LATINOS VAN A UNIVERSIDADES DE 2 AÑOS
A pesar de que Debru Petrov, una estudiante de 33 años de la universidad comunitaria de East Los Angeles, consiguió una pasantilla de periodismo remunerada, trabajaba para la universidad a tiempo parcial y asistía a clases, pasaba tres semanas sin ....
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Vale la pena el leer con nuestros hijos bilingües
Mayo es el Mes del Libro Latino y el creciente número de librerías en español que brotan por doquier en todo el país es evidencia de que los hispanos son unos ávidos lectores. La expansión del mercado de libros infantiles en español y bilingües ref....
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Continued Use of Race, Over-Use of Consent Searches Reported
(Austin) Many Texas law enforcement agencies continue to use consent searches inconsistently and inappropriately, according to a report released today by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition titled Searching for Consent: An Analysis of Racial Profi....
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