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Thought About Teaching?

Many teaching opportunities are cropping up for Latinos in unexpected places like, Arkansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Oregon. Growth of Hispanics in those states goes back to seeds planted two decades before. The demand for labor in the 90's caused many companies needing entry level workers to look at immigrant and migrant workers. These jobs created opportunities for many to settle and raise their children rather than traveling or following crops. Some places where large scores of the Hi… Continue

Added by Rey Hernandez on September 8, 2009 at 12:04pm — No Comments

NASA Conference Encourages Kids to Study Science

NASA is holding a two-day cultural and motivational workshop that aims to inspire young Hispanics to not only complete high school, but to pursue higher degrees in the sciences, math, and engineering. On Oct. 2-3, the seventh annual Hispanic Youth Conference, this year with the theme "Getting Involved: Our Families, Our

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Added by NSHP Editor on October 1, 2008 at 3:37pm — No Comments

Not Many Latinos in STEM Careers

The lack of Latino participation in science, technology, engineering, and math is so worrisome. American ingenuity, the foundation for our economic strength, has always been the product of our rich and diverse heritage. With the country’s growing Latino population, we have the classic paradox of challenge and opportunity. There is much worry today about America’s competitiveness and the future of the U.S. economy. The real wealth generator in the current global economy is innovation, and the hi… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on July 23, 2008 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Fewer Diverse Students Enrolling in Graduate Programs

According to a recently released study,”African American and Latino Enrollment Trends among Medicine, Law, Business, and Public Affairs Graduate Programs,”few Latino and African American students are enrolling in medicine, law, business, and public affairs graduate programs. This is due in part to a low number of high school graduates among these ethnic groups and the bachelor’s degree entry requirement o… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on June 25, 2008 at 10:04am — No Comments

Students Pressure Princeton for Latino Studies Program

For more than 30 years, students have been urging the administration to bring Latino studies to Princeton University.“The university has had the opportunity since the ’70s to begin to increase the number of Latino faculty and to build Latino studies and they just haven’t,” says Dr. Raul A. Ramos, assistant professor of history at the University of Houston and 1989 Princeton graduate. “There is a huge student demand and it’s a demand that has been there a long time.” It appears that Princeton ma… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on June 17, 2008 at 10:32am — No Comments

Online High Schools, a Good Idea?

The executive director of the iSucceed Virtual High School in Idaho has spent the past two months stumping in juvenile correctional facilities, cities with significant Hispanic populations and community programs aimed at getting kids off the streets. The virtual high school will go online next fall after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools. Nationwide, approximately 25 percent of high school students did not g… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on May 27, 2008 at 10:07pm — No Comments

Hispanics Continue to Lag in Educational Attainment

College graduates earn much more than those without a college education, and college graduates are more prevalent in metro than nonmetro areas, which contributes to higher earning levels in metro locales. Recent data from the Current Population Survey show that the metro advantage in college completion rates is growing over time. College completion rates rose across all major racial and ethnic groups in both metro and nonmetro areas between 1996 and 2006. By 2006, high school completion rates fo… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on May 7, 2008 at 10:41am — No Comments

Hispanic Speakers Tour for Commencement Speeches at Colleges and Universities across the U.S.

Redondo Beach, CA (PRWEB) March 27, 2008 -- An increasing number of colleges and universities are reaching out to successful Latino entrepreneurs and keynote speakers as the choice for their commencement speeches in 2008. Hispanic speakers are in high demand as their experience appeals to graduation audiences from a fresh, previously unheard perspective. "While we have seen some interest in the past, in 2008 the link between education and success has aroused a greater interest for Latinos and o… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on March 25, 2008 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Language Program Aims to Keep Hispanic Students in School

In Raleigh, NC, the Hispanic population is rapidly increasing. At the same pace, there seems to be a increase in high school dropouts. In Wake County, 17 percent of high school dropouts are Hispanic, but a new English language boot camp aims to reverse the trend. To reduce the number of dropouts, the Wake County Public School System plans to start an ESL Academy at Cary, Garner and Wakefield high schools.The program would offer nearly all-day English instruction, instead of the one-hour ESL cl… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on March 24, 2008 at 10:47am — No Comments

MyGrito.com Launches Sex Education Page

MyGrito.com, the fastest growing and most progressive Latino social networking site, has launched a Sex Page on their site. The page is intended to open the discussion about Sex among the Latino community. Sex is still a taboo topic for most Hispanic families and a lot of misinformation is exchanged because of lack of bravery to speak about the subject with sensible adults. MyGrito is trying to break the silence and provide a place for the Latino community to ask honest questions about the subje… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on March 3, 2008 at 9:57pm — No Comments

EAC Announces Expansion of Spanish Language Resources

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has announced the expansion of it's Spanish language resources. Resources are now available at www.eac.gov. The EAC home page now includes an En Español section which provides information about registering to vote, the Help America Vote Act, and the EAC's Language Accessibility Program. The section also includes a Spanish Glossary of Election Terminology, a voter resources center, and resources for the military and overseas voters. If you have any questio… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on January 17, 2008 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Education Pays, Recent Data from the U.S. Census

New released data from the 2007 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which is conducted in February, March and April at about 100,000 addresses nationwide: * Adults with advanced degrees earn four times more (average $82,320) than those with less than a high school diploma (average $20,873). * Last year, 86 percent of adults 25 and older said they at least completed high school, while 29 percent said they had at least a bachelor's degree. * Breakdown by race havi… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on January 16, 2008 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Hispanic Students have Less Access to College-Track Curriculum

Controversial study points out racial disparity in the Alexandria, VA city's schools; administrators object. When Leslie Auceda was in the sixth grade, her mother arrived at George Washington Middle School for a parent-teacher conference ready to learn about the progress her daughter was making in school. But she did not speak English, so she waited; after an hour and a half of waiting, Leslie’s mother surmised that the teachers were giving preference to the English-speaking parents. So she gav… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on November 26, 2007 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Children from Hispanic backgrounds have least access to preschool education

According to a recent report from researchers at Rutgers University, Hispanic children lag behind other ethnic groups in access to preschool education. From 1991 to 2005, participation rates increased for all ethnic groups, but Hispanic children had by far the lowest pre-K participation rate. African Americans had the highest participation rates, the study said. The study's results suggest that lack of access, the report said, not desire or knowledge of the advantages was probably the main reas… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on November 23, 2007 at 1:22pm — No Comments

Children's Shows Lead in Ethnic Diversity

Dora the Explorer greatest adventure is perhaps her continuing mission to introduce young fans to cultural diversity, an element that's as rare as magic coins on grown-up TV. She's had some help. The presence of minorities in preschool programming dates back to the late '60s, when Gordon and Maria took up residence on "Sesame Street." Roughly half of the most popular shows among 2- to 5-year-olds today feature black, Hispanic or Asian characters in starring roles, including the "Dora" spinoff "… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on November 7, 2007 at 6:14pm — No Comments

More Hispanic Students Prepared For College

More Hispanic high-school students were prepared for college in 2006 than they were just four years earlier, according to a report released by ACT. Hispanic high-school graduates who took the college-admissions test in 2006 had, on average, higher combined scores than those who took it in 2002, and they also scored higher, on average, in each of the test’s subject areas — English, mathematics, reading, and science. The average scores increased even as 19,026 more Hispanic students took the ACT… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on October 10, 2007 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Top Schools for Hispanic Students

According to the September issue of Hispanic Business magazine, the top schools for Hispanic students seem to vary according to school of degree. In this issue, the magazine ranks the top schools by the following areas: medical, law, engineering, and business. Ranked among these schools, is Stanford University, which came in at no. 1 for the best business school for Hispanic Students. Stanford also came in at no. 2 in the medical school catergory following the no. 1 slot which was the Universit… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on September 5, 2007 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Win an MBA Fellowship

Latin Trade and the Moore School of Business invite applications for The International Business Fellowship ―a full-tuition fellowship that will be awarded to a talented individual who applies to the IMBA program and answers the essay question: "How would an International MBA help you meet the opportunities and challenges of doing business in a global world?" The Moore School of Business’s full-time International MBA program has been ranked 1st or 2nd for 18 consecutive years by U.S. News &… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on August 20, 2007 at 6:55pm — No Comments

Nearly Half of the Nation's Hispanic Students Want to Study Near Home

According to a report released today by a national education research institute, nearly half of the nation's Hispanic students attend a few colleges like those in the El Paso area because they are affordable, accessible and close to home. "Today in America, the concentration of Latino students in a relatively small number of institutions is a very important finding," said Sarita Brown, president of Excelencia in Education, a group that promotes higher education among Latinos, which conducted th… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on August 20, 2007 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Diversity in Higher Education: The Texas Case

Demographers and economists had warned for decades that Texas' population was changing dramatically, and that our institutions of higher learning were falling behind in enrollment, graduation rates, excellence and research. In a rapidly globalizing economy, they warned, the importance of degrees was growing as rapidly as Texas' minority populations. If Texas didn't improve its colleges and universities — and dramatically increase enrollment and graduation rates, household incomes would drop $6,… Continue

Added by NSHP Editor on August 6, 2007 at 2:46pm — No Comments

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