By Rachana Rathi Globe Staff / September 7, 2008
The headlines have focused on the cutbacks and reductions, but in Newton and other suburban communities, there is an area of the public schools that is quietly growing: services for students who are learning to speak English.Even as it laid off or released 25 teachers, this year Newton added 1.5 teacher positions and 2.5 aides to its English Language Learners program to address a surge in the population of students who are new to the language. The district had a 15 percent increase is the number of such students between 2006 and 2007, and will have at least a 6 percent increase this fall.Read More

By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times September 6, 2008
Thomas Chun took the SAT college entrance exam twice, scoring well within qualifying range for prestigious research universities, if hundreds of points short of the top mark.Still, Chun believed his score, 2090 out of a possible 2400, might not stand up against those of other whiz kids at Whitney High, his selective magnet school in Cerritos. So he took the other admissions test, the ACT, and scored a perfect 36.Read More

September 5,2008 Los Angeles Times Effort to make pupils fluent in English and Spanish by fifth grade adds anxiety and hope to first day of classes at Highland Park campus.
Twenty kindergartners gathered expectantly around their teacher Wednesday, the first day of an urban experiment nearly two years in the making at Aldama Elementary School in Highland Park. They are going to learn Spanish and English and, teacher Amanda Kunkel promised, have fun.
But they just had to do one thing first. Read More

September 5,2008 Los Angeles Times Latin American could have a lot to learn from Finland, argues Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer.

Here, he details a recent visit to Finland, which “ranks first among 179 countries in Transparency International’s index of the least corrupt nations in the world (the United States is No. 20); No. 1 in Freedom House’s ranking of the world’s most democratic countries (the U.S. ranks No. 15); No. 1 in the world in 15-year-old students’ standardized test scores in science (the U.S. ranks No. 29), and is among the 10 most competitive economies in the World Economic Forum’s annual competitiveness index (the U.S. topped the list this year).”Read More

By H.G. Reza, Los Angeles Times September 2, 2008
Kinoshita and Del Obispo elementary schools are just an athletic field apart, but for many in San Juan Capistrano, the gap is a potent symbol of an issue that has roiled this south Orange County town in recent years: school segregation.The schools are on the edge of a middle-class, mostly white neighborhood. But while Del Obispo’s students are about 55% white, Kinoshita’s enrollment is about 95% Latino. It is a disparity that former district teacher Gia Lugo said highlights the wide gap in race relations in this historic community.Read More

By WINNIE HU, New York Times
HARLEY CABRERA felt trapped in her kindergarten class at parochial school, sitting behind a small desk day after day to memorize letters and numbers and to practice handwriting.Edward Holland, a shy and soft-spoken boy, wanted to leave behind a public elementary school where loud and rowdy classmates hung out in the hallways.Diego Scerbo cried whenever he had to put on his parochial school uniform of blazer, tie, button-down shirt and black dress shoes.Read More

By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times September 2, 2008
Armando Sosa’s elementary school is just a quick scramble up a steep dirt path and over a crosswalk from his home in Ramona Gardens, an Eastside housing project known for its crime and violence. If he’s late, he can hear the school bell from his bedroom.His mother, Liliana Martinez, loves Murchison Elementary but worries that Armando’s zeal for learning will wither in middle school.Read More

Por Virginia Gómez , Tu Boston
Cerrar la brecha que existe entre los niños que cuentan con inglés como su lengua materna y aquellos otros que, por sus orígenes, lo utilizan como segundo idioma; entender el complejo trasfondo cultural de las diversas comunidades que conforman la comunidad estudiantil, conseguir una mayor intervención de los padres… Son algunas de las metas del sistema educativo público de Boston para conseguir la excelencia académica en un momento en que la población latina se multiplica en el país. Read More

By Donovan Slack Boston Globe / August 29, 2008
The City of Boston is developing a job training program in an effort to stem the increasing number of young men from low-income Boston neighorhoods who are not in school and do not have steady work.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino has set aside $200,000 in federal grant money for the program, which will focus on training 18- to 24-year-olds for careers in food service, transportation, and logistics or the marine and building trades. Read More

By Erin Cahill Globe Correspondent / August 28, 2008
Classes start Tuesday at Lawrence High School, but for some ambitious students, they never stopped.Learning interview skills, writing research papers, and preparing for the SATs, 165 of them spent their summer in class. They gave up their vacations not because they failed a subject or received one too many detentions, but because they want to go to college.Read More

August 27,2008 Los Angeles Times With classes in Mandarin, overseas trips to China and France, bus transportation for commuters and individualized fitness instruction that includes salsa and tai chi, new students at St. Genevieve High School quickly come to realize that things are a bit different at this Panorama City campus.
A recent daylong pep rally celebrating 157 incoming freshmen that featured singing, dance routines, speeches and a pancake breakfast served by upper classmen sealed the deal.
The school has gained a reputation as one of the most innovative high schools in Los Angeles—one that is bucking the trend of many other urban Catholic schools that have closed or are teetering on the brink due to crumbling facilities and declining enrollments.Read More

By ELISSA GOOTMAN, New York Times, 08/28/2008
The Bloomberg administration, which has made accountability the watchword of its overhaul of public education, is asking elementary school principals across the city to give standardized tests in English and math to children as young as kindergartners.Read More

August 26, 2008 Pew Hispanic Center The number of Hispanic students in the nation’s public schools nearly doubled from 1990 to 2006, accounting for 60% of the total growth in public school enrollments over that period. There are now approximately 10 million Hispanic students in the nation’s public kindergartens and its elementary and high schools; they make up about one-in-five public school students in the United States. In 1990, just one-in-eight public school students were Hispanic.
Strong growth in Hispanic enrollment is expected to continue for decades, according to a recently released U.S. Census Bureau population projection. The bureau projects that the Hispanic school-age population will increase by 166% by 2050 (to 28 million from 11 million in 2006), while the non-Hispanic school-age population will grow by just 4% (to 45 million from 43 million) over this same period.1 In 2050, there will be more school-age Hispanic children than school-age non-Hispanic white children.Read More

By Peter Schworm Boston Globe / August 27, 2008
SAT scores for Massachusetts high school graduates rose this year on all three sections of the college entrance exam, far outpacing the national average.Graduates in the Bay State scored an average of 525 on the math section, a three-point increase from last year, and 514 on the critical reading section, a one-point climb. Scores on the writing section, introduced two years ago, rose two points to 513, according to statistics released yesterday by the College Board.Read More

August 24,2008 Miami Herald By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER

MEXICO CITY—Many Mexicans reacted with shock and dismay when it was announced recently that nearly 70 percent of teachers had flunked a new nationwide test to measure whether they had the basic skills to be educators. I, for one, celebrated the news.
What is taking place in Mexico may be part of one of the most encouraging—and under-reported—trends taking place in Latin America.
For the first time, Mexico has begun to demand that all teachers who apply for new openings at public schools undergo a nationwide test. And the dismal results of the first such exam of 71,000 teachers on Aug. 11 has led the country to come to grips with the depth of its educational crisis.Read More

August 22, 2008 Boston Globe A privately funded initiative that pays students in some New York City high schools up to $1,000 for passing Advanced Placement tests is not making the grade, critics say.

Students at the 31 schools participating in the program called Rewarding Achievement, or REACH, took 345 more tests this year than last year. But the passing rate dropped slightly, from 35 percent in 2007 to 32 percent this year, according to results released Wednesday.Read More

By Erika Hayasaki Los Angeles Times / August 23, 2008
NEW YORK - The sun gleams off the windows of an East Harlem “bodega,” as owner Julio Pimentel unlocks the door and steps behind the counter. He switches on a fan and tunes the radio to a Spanish station.It is 7 a.m. on a Friday. The rent is due, and Pimentel does not know whether he can pay. When he took over the small grocery eight years ago, his monthly rent was $1,500. Now it’s $3,300.Read More

BY KATHLEEN McGRORY AND ANDRES VIGLUCCI, Miami Herald, Aug. 22, 2008
Just a year ago, Killian High star grad Juan Gomez barely avoided a forcible return to his native Colombia, a country he scarcely knows, when classmates, civic leaders and members of Congress rallied to help him stave off deportation.Now he’s off—not to South America, but north to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., alma mater of Bill Clinton, where he has been admitted as an international student on scholarship. Read More

22 de agosto de 2008, Terra
Los hermanos Steve, Mark y Diana Lopez, estadounidenses de origen nicaragüense y estrellas del taekwondo, hicieron historia este viernes al convertirse en la primera familia que coloca a tres de sus miembros en el podio de unos Juegos Olímpicos.Read More

TuBoston, 08/21/2008.
BOSTON – Governor Deval Patrick has signed into law a bill that will improve access and quality of care for children living with mental illness.  The new law will make it easier for the Commonwealth to identify and treat mental illness in children through early screeningsRead More

Agosto 19, 2008 The New York Times There is an all-girls elementary school where everyone will study Spanish as well as English, a school with a particular interest in children in the child welfare system and a school whose students will learn to play at least two musical instruments. There is a high school for architecture, engineering and construction, and three schools founded by Eva S. Moskowitz, former chairwoman of the City Council’s Education Committee.Read More

By Jenifer B. McKim Globe Staff / August 19, 2008
Henrique Fernandes fell in love with the three-story red house with large rooms and an expansive backyard. The Cape Verdean immigrant envisioned his children running outside to play and his extended family celebrating holidays together.Read More

August 12,2008 Miami Herald Our state is still in the dark when it comes to school funding, according to Gloria Estefan, who Monday announced her first South Florida concert in four years—a partial fundraiser for education groups from Miami-Dade to Indian River counties.’’Unfortunately, we’ve seen and we know the budgets were cut,’’ Estefan told The Miami Herald following a glitzy news conference at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, where the singing superstar will perform Oct. 24 for about 5,500 people.Read More

Por Olga Lattarulo
Luis Castillo identificó una proteína dentro de la bacteria de la tuberculosis que se encarga de hacer el delivery de Zinc, una de las fuentes básicas de energía para que ésta haga su trabajo sucio en nuestro organismo. Es así que logrando identificar, aislar, e inutilizar esta proteína transportadora, el resto de la bacteria se queda sin gasolina y por ende, sería el fin de la enfermedad.Hablando especificamente de la comunidad hispana Castillo afirmó que “gran porcentaje de hispanos tiene la bacteria en estado latente, y problemas como la desnutrición y exposición a infecciones como el HIV son causales para estimular a la bacteria a salir de su estado de latencia y originar la enfermedad“.Read More

August 4, 2008. Silver Spring, Maryland--Ninety children received backpacks filled with school supplies on July 23 at an elementary school in the city of El Edén, in western Honduras, as a result of donations provided through ADRA’s Really Useful Gift Catalog.
One of the recipients, Mario René Amaya, 14, had been working recently as a farm laborer, after dropping out of school because his family could not afford his school supplies. Having received the supplies, Mario returned to school to continue with his studies, a decision that will likely impact not only his overall success, but also that of his community in El Edén.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. She got into guidance as a result of an early challenge: one of her teachers in high school told her once that she was not smart enough to go to college. Without being totally aware, she was pushed to go into clerical work. Once working in an office she felt miserable. So much so that she decided to take night courses in order to enter college. She then went to U.Mass-Lowell when it still was the University of Lowell, where she majored in Spanish. At the time she even went to Valencia, Spain for a summer. Her accent in Spanish still has the Spain touch.
After working in several dropout prevention programs Paula decided to follow a masters that would allow her to make a difference. At that point in her career she decided to study counseling and guidance. In her new professional world no kid was going to be told she/he was not smart enough to go to college. After working in Lawrence and Chelsea, where her knowledge of Spanish was an asset, she entered Somerville High.

Apart from obvious individual differences, what are the main issues affecting Hispanic students to go up the academic ladder?
First, they don’t have much home support. Many of our Latino families come from these little tiny villages in El Salvador and they don’t have the background in education; their parents don’t speak the language, so they don’t have the family support. Even though the families want them to get an education, they don’t know how because they don’t understand the system and sometimes don’t speak English. They are even intimidated to come into the high school. In other cases going up the ladder is not part of the family plans. Some families don’t want to let go of their grown up kids, especially boys. Second, they don’t understand the system, which makes them feel overwhelmed by schools, especially if it’s big schools. Just to give you an example, in Somerville High the case load of 9th graders for the 2008 group was 500. In this group 45% were whites and 26% Hispanics. Thirdly, a lot of them work 30 to 35 hours a week to help the family’s income. These kids are my heroes because they manage to go to school with that huge load in their lives. It’s very important for the parents to understand that there are many diverse people at the high school that speak different languages and that there’s help available to them. But the most important thing kids can do for themselves is to seek out for help. They need to talk with teachers, they need to talk to their guidance counselors, they need to go and be pro active. They can’t just sit and wait for someone to ask them, “Oh, so what can I do for you? What can I do?” Sometimes it happens, but a lot of times it doesn’t; the student needs to take the initiative to go and speak with the teacher about things like, am I taking the right courses, you know? Which courses do I need to put me on the right track to get into college?
One thing is meeting the graduation from high school requirements, which is great, but I if you want to go into college, you need specific courses. And the kids don’t know that you need to start from the 9th grade on. You can’t start in the 11th grade or going into their senior year. They need to start right from the 9th grade. The very first thing kids should do when they come to the 9th grade is make an appointment with their guidance counselor and ask: what courses am I going to take all four years to get me into a four year college?

One very specific question, Paula, in the case of the APS is it better to have AP, level 1 courses and obtain Bs and B-s, or take only level 2 classes?

It all depends; especially with 9th graders because so much is new and they are trying to adjust to the high school. No one expects a kid to have their life planned out ahead of them at the age of 16 or 17 years old. I always tell my students “I’m pushing 59 and I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up” so you don’t have to know what you want to be. But if a student has in their mind that they want to go to a university like Tufts or like Boston College or Harvard, one of those big name schools that everybody hears about, then they ought to understand that the level of courses they take is extremely important. Many times students don’t notice; they don’t have a concept. But, again, there is no way they could notice, because this is part of what the learning process in high school is about. You know, a 9th grader will come in and tell me: “Oh, I want to go to Harvard” but will get all Ds and Fs. You can’t go to Harvard with Ds and Fs. But there are a lot of wonderful colleges out there that don’t require you to take an AP class maybe just a college level course or so. However, it’s always good to challenge yourself. Colleges look at the courses that you take, and it’s better to get As and Bs in a college-level course that Cs and Ds in honors and AP classes. And you can still get into a great college with just the college-level courses you need.

What would you recommend Latino children and their families?

First, don’t be afraid to seek out for help. In all city high schools there are people like me, ready to help, to give them a hand in understanding how the school works. There is always someone who speaks their language. And if I happen to not understand all they’re saying, I will go next door and ask Mr. Diaz to give me a hand. Second, I would urge the parents to know more about what courses their children are taking in school. Become interested, you might not be able to help with the homework, that’s OK, but just you know ask your student what classes are you taking? Are you getting good grades? If parents can’t get the information from the student, they shouldn’t be afraid to ask the school. Don’t be afraid to just come in and say can I speak to my child’s guidance counselor, just call the guidance counselor, and if the guidance counselor doesn’t speak Spanish I know that if there’s an important situation, there’s always someone who speaks Spanish, especially in city high schools. You know, I put myself in their shoes. If I lived in a country like Japan where I don’t know the language I would be scared to death about my children. The third suggestion is to attend the PTA nights, to come up when schools have their PTA nights, their Open Houses and come up and meet the child’s teachers, meet the child’s guidance counselor. They should become part of the school community as best as they can. I know it’s hard and I know people work. Many of our parents work day and night jobs, and I know it’s not that easy but even coming just one day to make a visit and meet your kid’s teachers and guidance counselor and be connected to the school. That’d be great.

Tell us more about the importance of the guidance counselor
If there’s one adult in the building that the kid can come in and feel comfortable with –whether they want to talk about personal stuff or whether it’s strictly academic– that’s the guidance counselor. That’s the role of the guidance counselor: just to be there. And mind you, in this day and time we are living in it’s hard to believe that any guidance counselor would tell a kid that they she or he is too stupid to go to college. But you know that when you talk to adults our age you’ll be amazed at how many people like you and me share stories like the one I mentioned at the beginning about being told that they couldn’t do this or achieve that.

This picture is a present from one of Paula’s students as a token for all her support. It depicts Paula as a youngster full of dreams.

Univision Online y Agencias
1 de Agosto de 2008
LOS ÁNGELES, California - José Hernández Moreno desde niño soñó con volar a las estrellas; y gracias a su dedicación y perseverancia, el próximo año hará ese sueño una realidad. La Agencia Nacional de Aeronáutica y el Espacio (NASA) anunció hace poco que éste hijo de un campesino originario de Michoacán, se convertirá en el segundo mexicano en viajar al espacio.Read More

Although the Latino community lacks nationwide initiatives such as Berea College (posted yesterday), that help deprived African Americans find a smoother way to college, other local initiatives do help. That is the case of Boston’s Initiative for Diversity in Civic Leadership (IDCL). See more below.

IDCL Class of 2008 Graduation & Alumni in the news

On June 16, 2008, 27 talented men and women graduated from the IDCL 2008 program. Held at the State House, nearly 200 people gathered to honor the graduates for all their hard work and dedication over the 16 weeks of the program. Participants brought a wealth of experiences and skills from diverse sectors of the Greater Boston Community, including Roxbury, Cambridge, Worcester, Lynn and Watertown. For more information go to http://initiativefordiversity.net/

July 21, 2008-- Los Angeles Times --Because Evaristo Suarez twice entered this country illegally, he must wait 10 years before he can apply to legally return. His wife, Heather, and three children wait with him amid Tijuana’s perils. Read More

When it comes to minorities, what seems to move the education machine, at least in higher education, is the capacity of organized communities or specific groups, to create their own solutions. Latinos seem to be in retard finding options to bring their youth to obtain a sensible college education...unless, unless you’ve got the money.

With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice
July 21, 2008 --NYT, BEREA, Ky. — Berea College, founded 150 years ago to educate freed slaves and “poor white mountaineers,” accepts only applicants from low-income families, and it charges no tuition. Read More

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has committed $4.3 million to ACCION over the next five years to extend microfinance into rural Latin America. Around the world, the rural poor – often among the most impoverished – are underserved by microfinance. ACCION will work with five of its long-term partners in Latin America – Banco Ademi in the Dominican Republic, CREDIFE in Ecuador, Financiera FAMA in Nicaragua, FINAMERICA in Colombia and Mibanco in Peru – to overcome barriers and explore new technological and methodological solutions. The project will provide financial services and training to the rural poor that are less expensive, better tailored to the client and easy to replicate.

Friday, July 11, 2008—Watch this video from The Washington Post portraying how a city has come back from decay. Watch

BY DAVE MONTGOMERY

WASHINGTON—A leading Hispanic organization is demanding assurances from the two major presidential candidates that they’ll push for comprehensive immigration revisions and dramatically increase Hispanic representation in the federal government.John McCain and Barack Obama are scheduled to appear Tuesday before the 79th annual convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens as part of their continuing offensive to bolster their support among Hispanics, the nation’s fastest-growing minority. More than 9 million Latinos are expected to vote in the November general election.Read More

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Los Angeles Times / July 6, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Celestina “Celes” Lopez strode out from under the shade of a battered palm tree, entered the makeshift soccer field of dirt and gravel, and called to teammates in Spanish.
“Don’t be afraid of the big ones,” said the 40-year-old mother of two, her shoulders thrust back and head as high as she could manage on a 5-foot frame.Her sisters, Francisca, 34, and Elda, 30, walked with her."Be like the men - aggressive,” Elda called out.
During the week, the sisters spend their days like scores of other illegal immigrant women in Los Angeles: Wedged behind Singer sewing machines, they feed pants and shirts under the needle until their shoulders grow stiff.Read More

By MARC LACEY. New York Times. June 25, 2008.PANAMA — In life, Wilson C. Lucom was not exactly child friendly. The gruff octogenarian never had children himself and was not especially close to the offspring of his third wife, Hilda, either. When he opened his ample checkbook, friends say, it was more likely to finance a conservative political cause than to help underprivileged youths.Read More

By Jorge Silva and Frank Jack Daniel. CARACAS, June 23 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s youth orchestras and choirs have helped thousands of children resist thug life in some of South America’s most violent slums, and now wealthy countries are lining up to emulate the system.

Last year, the Los Angeles Philharmonic named Venezuelan conductor and the classical music world’s brightest star Gustavo Dudamel, 27, as its next director, shining a spotlight on the remarkable network of music schools in which he was trained.Raed More

By Rajesh MirchandaniBBC News, Los Angeles. As thousands of schoolchildren in California look forward to their summer break, the spectre of huge budget cuts has left many of their parents wondering what the next school year will bring.

“Pick on someone your own size,” announces a fearless eight-year-old at Parthenia Elementary School in North Hills, California - a complex of single-storey buildings in the San Fernando Valley, where 85% of students are Hispanic, more than half of them learning to speak English. Read More

AFP

21 de Mayo de 2008

WASHINGTON- Un acuerdo bipartidario sobre el proyecto de reforma del sector inmobiliario, que debía ser examinado el martes en el Senado, hace posible la adopción por parte del Congeso de una ley por la cual más de 500 mil personas amenazadas de desalojo podrán conservar sus viviendas. Read More

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Colombian pop singer Shakira is using her fame to help poor Latin American children, but she also has her heart set on a new role—mother to her own offspring.

“I want two,” the hip-swiveling siren told Reuters on Thursday at an event to promote the children’s charity, the ALAS Foundation (which stands for Latin America in Solidarity Action when translated into English). Read More

By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 13, 2008; Page A02
Immigrants of the past quarter-century have been assimilating in the United States at a notably faster rate than did previous generations, according to a study released today.
Modern-day immigrants arrive with substantially lower levels of English ability and earning power than those who entered during the last great immigration wave at the turn of the 20th century. Read More

Final Call, News Report, Jesse Muhammad, Posted: Apr 19, 2008
“When more than one million students a year drop out of high school, it’s more than a problem, it’s a catastrophe,” retired General Colin Powell, founder of America’s Promise Alliance. “It’s time for a national ‘call to arms,’ because we cannot afford to let nearly one-third of our kids fail.” Read More

The Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program is an internationally-recognized dropout prevention program developed by the Intercultural Development Research Association. The program works by identifying middle and high school students who are in at-risk situations and enlists them as tutors of elementary school children who are also struggling in school.

A middle school in south Texas took the program one step further and has involved its Coca­-Cola Valued Youth Program tutors as representatives in their school’s student council.Read More

The Latino Dollars for Scholars Foundation of Rhode Island (LADO).
LADO is committed to increasing the Latino presence at the postsecondary education level by creating partnerships with the private sector, providing academic support and resources, and awarding academic scholarships.  Our philosophy is one that focuses on rewarding individual achievements and service to the community.  For more information: http://www.ladori.org/

Nestor Ikeda | 2008-04-22 | La Opinión
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C.— La cantante colombiana Shakira fue parte el lunes de un trío sin precedentes: unió su voz a la del primer ministro británico Gordon Brown y el presidente del Banco Mundial, Robert Zoellick, para abogar por una educación de calidad para los niños en países pobres.

“En los países pobres la educación se está volviendo una lotería cuando en realidad es un derecho humano”, dijo Shakira en una conferencia telefónica en la cual ella y Zoellick estuvieron en Washington y Brown en su oficina de Londres. “La educación es también una gran estrategia contra la pobreza”.

La participación de los tres es parte de la llamada “semana de acción” de la Campaña Global por la Educación (CGE), una semana orientada a crear conciencia entre los gobernantes del mundo de una meta común: que cada niño tenga acceso garantizado a la educación primaria para el año 2015. Read More

On this occasion we are including a very special study prepared by Lesley University for AICUM, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts. Here you can find the best data and analysis of Latinos in college, to what extent they access higher education, which are the colleges offering better conditions for access, and many of the reasons why the number of Hispanics in college is still low. Enjoy.

Higher Hopes, Higher Achievement
Challenges for Hispanics/Latinos in Higher Education:

A Study of Hispanic/Latino High School Graduates in Massachusetts and their Future in Higher Education
Ms. Sonnya Luz Espinal, Policy & Research Intern
M.A. Intercultural Relations, Lesley University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fall 2006
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