This is where we will talk about improving Latino education, health, finance and so on.
August 30, 2010 Boston Globe
For some teens, back-to-school shopping is a weekend trip to the local mall. For others, it’s a summerlong process tailored by careful imitation of celebrity trends.For two fashion-conscious students from Framingham and Newton — who also happen to be class presidents — the challenge is to secure a signature style that will set a positive tone for an entire school year.Read More
September 24, 2009 Boston Globe
It’s accessorizing - with a thrifty twist.This summer, as the start of school loomed, Haverhill 11-year-old Chloe Isabelle-Alper and her mother scoured her closet, and reached a compromise. Instead of a brand new back-to-school wardrobe, Chloe would get just a few outfits. The rest would be recycled, mixed and matched: Last year’s pants, shirts, skirts and dresses intermingled with the handful of new pieces.Read More
September 6, 2009 The New York Times
ATLANTA — It looks like a typical college dormitory: the functional single cots, the students lazing in pajamas and sandals, the laptops and iPhones clicked to Facebook.But the Turman South dormitory at Emory University in Atlanta is what administrators call a self-isolation facility. Or, as students call it, the Swine Flu Dorm. The Leper Colony. Club Swine.Read More
September 5, 2009 The New York Times
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In the small trailer her family rented over the summer, 9-year-old Charity Crowell picked out the green and purple outfit she would wear on the first day of school. She vowed to try harder and bring her grades back up from the C’s she got last spring — a dismal semester when her parents lost their jobs and car and the family was evicted and migrated through friends’ houses and a motel.Read More
September 4, 2009 The New York Times
HOUSTON — President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.Read More
September 4, 2009 Boston Globe
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Newell’s Old Boys alcanzó en la punta a Estudiantes de La Plata al igualar 1-1 en su visita a Boca Juniors en un partido disputado el jueves por la tercera jornada del torneo Apertura del fútbol argentino.Newell’s, que perdía 1-0 después del gol del delantero de Boca Lucas Viatri a los 56 minutos, igualó a los 65 por intermedio de Leonel Vangioni.Read More
September 3, 2009 The New York Times
Here on the balmy central coast of California and all across the country, kids are heading back to school. The classes are larger, the No Child Left Behind mandates remain in place and, despite advice from the nation’s secretary of health and human services and others, recess and physical education (not to mention art and music instruction) have in many schools been cut back or eliminated. While most of our backpack-laden kids are eager to catch up with friends they haven’t seen over the summer, the general feeling is that “playtime is over.”Read More
09.02.09 The Miami Herald
Faced with complaints from parents and students about racial insensitivity, state and local education officials have dropped the word negro from a racial background form that went out to every Broward public school student the first day of school.The form, on page 9 of the code of student conduct booklet and titled ``Required Data From Parents,’’ asked two questions: the yes-or-no ``Is your child Hispanic or Latino?’’ and the multiple-choice ``What is your child’s race?’’Read More
September 1, 2009 The New York Times
Harvard Medical School is backing off a new student policy that would have restricted interaction with the news media after students complained it would chill their ability to talk about current issues in medicine, school officials said Tuesday.Read More
3 tips for Latinos: don’t be afraid to ask for help; learn more about the courses your child is taking, and attend PTA nights…
Somerville High School is located on top of a hill. From Paula Monahan’s office the view over Cambridge and Boston is magnificent (“a million-dollar view without the million dollars account”). Paula has been guidance counselor in Somerville for the last 14 years; her room is filled with pictures, photos, and mementos from her students. Read More
09-01-2009 The Miami Herald
ATLANTA— High school librarian Melissa Payne is starting her new school year with $1,000 less in her paycheck and three days that she’ll be forced to stay home from her job.It’s a similar story across the country, where teachers - once among the groups exempted from furlough days - are being forced to take unpaid days off amid massive state budget cuts.Read More
08/31/09 The New Tribune
Parents and students aren’t the only targets of back-to-school sales. Teachers and education administrators can get special discounts, too.Here are a few discounts:-Borders. The bookstore is now offering educators 25 percent off the list price of books, music, CDs, toys and games for classroom use (up from the previous 20 percent off offer). During Educator Appreciation Week (Sept. 29 - Oct. 7) the discount increases to 30 percent.Read More
08.31.09 The Miami Herald
his is part of a series that looks at selected economic stimulus programs.For Don Lopez, financial aid made the difference between being a waiter at Denny’s and a job as a network systems administrator.He received aid through the federal Pell Grant program, which helped him attend Sheridan Technical Center to learn the new trade. It’s one of several higher-education programs that benefits from the economic stimulus package. Read More
08.30.09 The Miami Herald
We have come to the time of year when we remove the video-game controls-by surgery, if necessary-from the hands of our children, and send them back to school. And if they complain that school is a boring waste of time, we smack them firmly yet lovingly with a roofing timber and remind them of the words of our first president, Benjamin Franklin, who said: ``There is nothing more valuable in life than an education, except, of course, money or a nice car.’’Read More
August 30, 2009 Boston Globe
BRIDGEWATER - As she counts the hours until the first day of school, Kimberly Kelly can hardly contain her excitement about what awaits her at the Federal Furnace Elementary School.A new school year is always exciting, but this one especially so for the Milton 24-year-old, who will take her newly minted special education degree to her very first classroom in the Plymouth public schools, teaching five K-1 students with autism.Read More
August 30, 2009 Boston Globe
Christine Cherell’s pink flip-flops splashed in puddles as she pushed an orange laundry cart overflowing with cardboard boxes filled with sheets, pillows, and “at least 50 T-shirts I’ll never wear’’ toward her Boston University dormitory on Bay State Road.But she did not pack for the downpour yesterday as remnants from what was once Tropical Storm Danny dropped as much as 5 inches of rain on parts of Eastern Massachusetts. The South Coast was hit hardest, with New Bedford receiving 5.05 inches of rain, while on the Cape, Centerville and Falmouth got more than 4 inches.Read More
August 26, 2009 Boston Globe
This fall, New Hampshire will lose its distinction as the last holdout in the nation not to offer public kindergarten, as the last 10 school districts, all in the southern part of the state, are required to open their doors to 5-year-olds for the first time.Under a mandate from the Legislature, the school districts are setting up portable classrooms and adding furniture, computers, and other equipment, paid for with $3.5 million in state money, said Helen Schotanus, a state Department of Education consultant.Read More
August 25, 2009 The Miami Herald
On a typical school night, Kelly Cabal usually splits her time between her homework and helping her little brother Jesus do his.But this school year, Jesus, 10, along with 49 other students from Dante Fascell Elementary in Kendall, have been chosen to take part in the ``I 2 Can Succeed’’ after- school program.Through this program, Read2Succeed, a nonprofit organization, provides students from low-income families with free after-school tutoring, snacks and social-skills instruction. Read More
August 25, 2009 Boston Globe
IT’S back-to-school time for college students, which means big tuition bills. Most will defer large out-of-pocket costs until after college through the use of student loans. No one is happy about the explosion in student loan debt to pay rising tuition, but there is a silver lining: We can use student loans to slow tuition growth.Read More
08.24.09,The Miami Herald
Monday morning marked the start of school for more than 600,000 kids across South Florida.Children in Miami-Dade County filed into three new traditional schools and 14 new charter schools.In Broward County, two traditional elementary schools and five charter schools made their back-to-school debut.Students throughout the region said they were looking forward to seeing their friends and meeting their teachers.Read More
08.23.09 The Miami Herald
ABOVE: Delores Jordan—mom of Michael Jordan—urges parents and students to get involved during Miami’s Back to School Rally.
LEFT: Eleyah John-Baptiste, 6, gets free school supplies at a Lauderhill event for families in need.
Yes, there will be enough toilet paper.But the upcoming school year, which begins Monday, will have no frills. Don’t expect the latest in technology, all the after-school sports or as many school-band trips.Read More
August 22, 2009 Los Angeles Times
The start of the school year will undoubtedly bring a rise in H1N1 infections, health and education officials said today as they urged parents be vigilant in practicing precautionary measures like hand-washing and the “Dracula sneeze” (sneezing into the inside of your elbow).“I want to make sure parents are not afraid to send their children to school if they are well,” said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, health officer for Los Angeles County. “There is no reason for panic.”H1N1, or “swine flu,” was first detected in this country in April. More than 700 schools across the nation, including 37 in California, closed this spring because of suspected outbreaks. Overnight camps were hard-hit with flu cases this summer, prompting some to send children home.Read More
08/22/2009 The Miami Herald
The number of South Florida students who got school meals for free or at a discount has shot up over the last year—and some officials believe the number could continue to rise as the state’s economy struggles.By the end of last school year, more than 350,000 of the region’s nearly 578,000 public school students received free or reduced-price lunch.Read More
August 22, 2009 The New York Times
AN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If earnings reports released on Thursday are a sign of business to come, U.S. apparel retailers will have to continue cutting costs and discounting as slumping sales persist.Gap Inc
August 21, 2009 Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - College students are appealing financial aid decisions this summer in unprecedented numbers, an outpouring of need that underscores how layoffs and pay cuts have battered household budgets in the past year.Appealing for more aid was a little-known and seldom-advertised option in higher education until this year. US Education Department officials wrote to financial aid administrators in the spring, when most aid decisions are made, urging them to “reach out to your students . . . particularly those who seem to have hit a rough patch, to make sure that they know there may be ways that you can help.’’Read More
August 19, 2009 Miami Herald
Kids clothes have grown up, because they demanded it. The youngest among us are still more prone to embrace bolder colors and layering extremes, but most of them don’t want to look much different than the fashionable adults and superstar teenagers they idolize.
Blame it on the media, but it’s just so much easier to formulate a style identity. And that’s just what’s happening to the preschool set. There are children who can’t even spell catwalk but consider themselves the best stylists in town. Read More
August 19, 2009 Los Angeles Times
Dump out the coffee cans, car ashtrays and the bottom of your purse. The lowly penny, which almost was taken out of circulation three years ago, is making a comeback as the recession puts a crimp in back-to-school sales.
Spiral notebooks, batteries, markers, crayons, pencils and even some clothing are just a few of the items going for 1 cent these days. The gimmick, which seems as old as the penny, is gaining traction as merchants try to attract penny-pinching consumers with deals. Read More
August 14, 2009 New York Times
Halfway through the back-to-school shopping season, retail professionals are predicting the worst performance for stores in more than a decade, yet another sign that consumers are clinging to every dollar.
Fears about the job market have resulted in sluggish customer traffic over the last few weeks, spurring the gloomy sales projections. Parents who do shop are aggressively trading down, informing status-conscious teenagers that notebooks from the dollar store or shirts from Costco will have to do this year. Read More
August 11, 2009 Los Angeles Times
Painting online textbooks as a boon to student achievement and school district coffers, state Education Secretary Glen Thomas announced today that 10 free digital high school math and science textbooks are ready to be used in California classrooms.
The likelihood of students tapping them when schools open in a couple of weeks is slim, because of school districts’ textbook-adoption policies and teacher training needs, but Thomas said the move marks the first step in something that will revolutionize education in California. Read More
