If you're willing to read the blog of a person who works for ACT, I'm guessing you probably have some college experience. If you attended college, ...
MIAMI -- Duna Lopez started school in Miami last fall not knowing a single word of English. The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blon...
Although multicultural education has sometimes proven to be an effective means of supporting the school experiences of students of color, this study shows that psychological intervention has a positive impact on the academic achievement of Latino students.
The increasing diversity of U.S. students and their families demonstrate the need to develop innovative strategies to encourage meaningful parental involvement. When weighing budget pressures, eliminating ways to engage parents is a step in the wrong direction.
There needs to be more of a balance with respect to the racial composition of teachers in urban schools -- we cannot just hire black teachers for history and Latino teachers to teach Spanish. We need teachers of color in the mathematics, science and English content areas as well.
The first day that we walked in the classroom we realized that our job would not be easy. Half of the students were absent while many others were walking in late or walking out during the middle of the class.
African American and Hispanic students are more likely to work longer hours when holding a job while attending school, compared to non-Hispanic white ...
When it comes to Black and Latino kids in urban schools, educators need to ask themselves an honest question: do you care more about academic performance of students or student behavior?
This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent. Two-thirds of black students, but only half of Hispanics, graduated from Wilbur Cross Hig...
By 2060 Latinos will be nearly one of every three Americans, according to the latest Census report released today. As the immigration and globalizat...
NEW YORK -- One of the biggest awards ever issued for racial harassment in high school – $1 million – was upheld Monday by a federal appea...
Our schools are arguably more segregated today than they were during the Brown decision. Indeed, many of the schools desegregated after Brown have re-segregated today. The effect of that segregation is just as toxic now as it was in 1954.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Board of Education unanimously approved new goals for closing achievement gaps in math scores Thursday, but the state's ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Education after the agency refused to release public records det...
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Ernest R. Geddes Elementary School in Baldwin Park, Calif., is a noisy place. Students ...
Minorities account for nearly half of the student population in America, and will likely become the majority within the next decade or two, but recent...
WASHINGTON -- More than half the young black men who graduated high school in 2010 earned their diploma in four years, an improved graduation rate tha...
With Chicago public school teachers on strike, Latino families may be the hardest hit, as outside of the public school space, many Latino families tra...
Public K-12 education has been gutted in the past three years, and I'm particularly angry because these school children are most likely -- at least in California -- to be Latino.
If Steve Jobs were attending a typical urban public school today, chances are high that he would have been suspended, expelled, or at the very least, put on a track aimed at failure rather than success.
Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Joanna Lin California high schools that serve largely Latino or African American students are faili...
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a stark warning against Alabama's controversial immigration law, which feds say has caused "increased hostil...
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 ...
CARSON, Calif. — Classes were proceeding normally amid heightened security Thursday at a Los Angeles-area high school where eight students were ...
CARSON, Calif. -- Dozens of students battled each other at a California high school Wednesday in a racially motivated brawl between black and Latino s...
