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Feds: Alabama Immigration Law Will Have 'Continuing And Lasting' Consequences

Posted 05.07.2012

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The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a stark warning against Alabama's controversial immigration law, which feds say has caused "increased hostil...

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The Top 25 Institutions Graduating Latinos

Posted 03.09.2012

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In a time when more than half of the country's total population growth was driven by an increase in the Hispanic population, the academic achievement ...

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California High School Brawl Not Racially Motivated, Officials Say

AP | Posted 05.08.2012

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CARSON, Calif. — Classes were proceeding normally amid heightened security Thursday at a Los Angeles-area high school where eight students were ...

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4 Injured, 2 Arrested In Racially Motivated High School Brawl

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.07.2012

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CARSON, Calif. -- Dozens of students battled each other at a California high school Wednesday in a racially motivated brawl between black and Latino s...

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Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago

| Teresa Wiltz | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Video, Education, Minority Students Education, Minority Students, Black Students, Applied Research Center, Achievement Gap, Education Trust, Poor Students, Minority Student Achievement Gap, Latino Student Performance, Black Student Performance, Latino Students, Low-Income Students, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of America's Wire. WASHINGTON —- Educators are expressing alarm that the performance gap between minority and whi...

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Missouri Copycat Bill Would Require Schools To Verify Student Immigration Status

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Missouri Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Will Kraus, Missouri Immigration Bill, Immigration, Undocumented Students, Latino Students, Student Immigration, Will Kraus Missouri, Alabama Immigration, Education, Video, Missouri Schools, Student Immigration Status, Alabama Immigration Law, Hispanic Students, Education News

In a move similar to ones chided by federal courts in Alabama and Arizona, one Kansas City area lawmaker has proposed a bill that would require Missou...

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Huge Achievement, Cultural Gaps Plague Schools And Latino Students

AP | By MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Latino Families, Latino Achievement Gap, Connecticut Schools, Achievement Gap, Hispanic Parents, Dannel Malloy, Windham Connecticut, Latino Students, New England Schools, Hispanic Students, Video, Education News

WINDHAM, Conn. -- As a parent liaison in a school district with a fast-growing Hispanic majority, Ana Lozada navigates a deep cultural divide: Parents...

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Minority Parents: Schools Need Reform, But Children's Academic Success Is On Us

Posted 12.05.2011

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Studies have consistently shown that compared to their white counterparts, minority students are less likely to graduate high school on time or receiv...

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'Income Achievement Gap' Nearly Double Black-White Performance Gap

| Louis Freedberg | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Income Gap, Standardized Test Scores, Video, Education, Income Inequality, Black-White Achievement Gap, Income Achievement Gap, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Standardized Testing, Stanford University, Latino Students, Education News

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. In a dramatic illustration of the impact of income inequality on how children do in...

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Lack of Minority Teachers Attributed To Bias And Low Graduation Rates

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Video, Minority Teacher-Student Gap, High School Graduation, College Graduation, Latino Teachers, Black Students, Native American Teachers, Minority Graduation Rates, Black Teachers, Minority Teachers, Teachers, Center for American Progress, Latino Students, Native American Students, Education News

Minority students will likely outnumber white students in the next decade or two, but the failure of the national teacher demographic to keep up with ...

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Lawmakers: No Child Left Behind Rewrites Hurt Minority Students

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON — Minority lawmakers say House and Senate plans to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law fail to protect minority children, ...

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Alabama Attorney General Balks At Feds' School Enrollment Data Request

AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 01.03.2012

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama's attorney general is questioning the U.S. Justice Department's legal authority to get enrollment information about a...

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Feds Investigating Alabama School Enrollment In Light Of Immigration Law

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Equal Education, Alabama Public Schools, Alabama Immigrant Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Equal Access to Education, Immigration, Hispanic Students, Undocumented Students, Alabama Schools, Alabama Undocumented Students, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez, Department of Justice, Video, Immigrant Students, Alabama Immigration Law, Thomas Perez, Latino Students, Alabama Hispanic Students, Education News

The U.S. Department of Justice is further pressuring Alabama schools to abide by federal mandates that states cannot deny children equal access to pub...

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More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.10.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

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More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.27.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

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California Has One Of Nation's Widest Gaps In Hispanic-White Reading Proficiency

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: California Reading Proficiency, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Reading Proficiency, Hispanic Students Reading, Achievement Gap, School Funding, California Standards Test, Hispanic Students English, Reading Proficiency Gap, Public Policy Institute of California, Nation's Report Card, Civil Rights Project at UCLA, Latino Students, California Hispanic Students, English Learners, Video, Education, Salinas Valley, Soledad Unified School District, English as Second Language, California Schools, California School Funding, English Language Acquisition Program, Hispanic Students, Education News

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the second of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students ...

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English Learners Far Behind Under English-Only Methods

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.25.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. BALDWIN PARK, Calif. –- The end of the school day in Patty Sanchez’s kindergarten cl...

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Court Blocks Alabama From Checking Undocumented Student Status

AP | By GREG BLUESTEIN and JAY REEVES | Posted 12.15.2011

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Armando Cardenas says he has thought about leaving Alabama because of the possibility of being arrested as an illegal immigrant an...

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Minority Students Face Harsher Punishments, Report Shows

Posted 12.05.2011

Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according ...

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How This Hurt Latino Students, And Regulators Let It Happen

AP | By GOSIA WOZNIACKA | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Latinos, Pesticides, Latino Discrimination, Environmental Protection Agency, Latino Children, Education, California, Epa, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, California Schools, Latino-Childrens-Health, Latino Students, Education News

FRESNO, Calif. -- California pesticide regulators discriminated against Latino schoolchildren when they annually approved a powerful pesticide used ne...

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Bullying Victims See Lower GPAs, Especially High Achieving Blacks and Latinos

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Minority Student Achievement, Minority Students, Black Students, Bullying and Gpa, American Sociological Association, Gpa, Latino Students, High School Gpa, High School Bullying, Black and Latino Students, High School, Bullying and Grades, Academics, Bv-Parenting, School Bullying, Video, Education News

Bullying victims often cite lasting psychological damage as a consequence, but a new study shows that those who are bullied also suffer academically, ...

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Young Latinos Vital To Reaching National College Degree Attainment Goals

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino-Politics, Latino Education Gap, College Completion, College, Cost of Higher Education, Correction, High School, 2020, Obama, Dropout, College Dropouts, Higher Education, High School Dropouts, College Attainment, Students, Latino Students, Latino Education, Latino Voices News

Daniel Perez narrowly avoided the fate of navigating his young life armed with only a high school diploma. His family had emigrated from Mexico whe...

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KIPP Student Recalls Tough Path To Graduation, College

Patch | Sonja Sharp | Posted 08.18.2011

Read More: KIPP Schools, Francisco Deleon, Kipp King Charter School, Kipp, Hispanic Students, Bohannon Middle School, Kipp King Collegiate High, Latino Students, Charter Schools, Education News

Every day for four years, Norma DeLeon Zarate would remind her son Francisco this day was coming. "For as long as I can remember, she was saying, 'Yo...

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Federal Aid to the Schools -- Wasteful or Helpful?

Jack Jennings | Posted 06.21.2011

The proportion of students who are the focus of federal aid is growing. Thus, we should reconfirm our commitment to bringing about greater equity in education.

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Pass The iPad? Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media

Craig Watkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Low-Performing Schools, African American Students, Technology-in-Schools, Digital Divide, Latino Students, Education, Achievement Gap, Education News

What if young people were encouraged to view their mobile phones, cameras, and iPods as learning devices and tools for critical citizenship and engagement in their communities?

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