Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Different Diplomas for Latinos in NYC?
2:07 pm By Maegan La Mala · Education|New York City · Comments Off
30 Nov 2005
Yesterday’s NYC Council meeting got heated with accusations that there is a two tiered education system in place. The accusation stems from statistics revealing that one in 10 African-American and Hispanic students earn the harder to get Regents high school diploma, with most of those students earning what has been called a “watered down” local diploma.
While some may fall back on the all too easy response that maybe those students are not made for the test based Regents diploma, many high school students of color are tracked in non-Regents classes with parents not even knowing.
Via / WNBC
Pew: Latinos attend crowded schools
7:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education · 6 Comments
1 Nov 2005
Interesting findings from a study by the Pew Hispanic Center, released today:
The report finds more than half of Latinos (56-percent) attend the nation’s largest public high schools — those schools whose enrollment size ranks them in the 90th percentile or higher. That’s compared with 32-percent of blacks and 26-percent of whites.
The report also finds about 37-percent of Latinos attend the 10-percent of schools with the highest student-teacher ratios. Just 14-percent of black students and 13-percent of whites attend those schools, which have a student-teacher ratio greater than 22-to-1 compared with the national average of 16-to-1.
Pretty compelling numbers. I think this is even more interesting in light of some recent chatter about “underachieving” Latino students on blogs and in other media.
The article goes on:
“The characteristics of high schools matter for student performance. Hispanic teens are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to attend public high schools that have the dual characteristics of extreme size and poverty.”
“Extreme size and poverty” — if those aren’t two huge distractions from learning (“my teacher has no time for me, nor do my parents because they are working their asses off to make ends meet”) then I don’t know what is.
Via / All Headline News
¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina!
10 Oct 2005
I just stumbled upon this site targeted for 9 to 14-year-old girls, ¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina!, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). They estimate that in under 15 years, 1 in 5 children in the US will be of Hispanic origin. The site and program is a response to the fact that Hispanic girls have higher rates of pregnancy, depression, and suicide than any other racial group.
Some people may ask you “Are you a Latina or are you American?”
¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina! is really a great site with lots of information and activities for the girls. The What it Means to be Bicultural is a nice example of their articles.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to choose one or the other!
With sections on “Your Family”, “Your Body”, “Your Future”, and more, the site is very complete. Girls can find out “How to Become a Doctor”, Recipes for Day of the Dead, and even “Ask the Doctor” questions about health/body questions.
Available in English and in Spanish, I recommend that our readers share the site with the 9-14 year old girls in their lives.
Top 10 Business Schools for Hispanics
1. Stanford University
Stanford School of Business
2. University of California, Berkeley
Haas School of Business
3. University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
4. Yale University
Yale School of Management
5. University of Miami
School of Business Administration
6. Duke University
Fuqua School of Business Durham, NC
7. Columbia University
Columbia Business School
8. University of Michigan
Ross School of Business
9. Florida International University
Chapman Graduate School of Business
10. University of New Mexico
The Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management
Top 10 Engineering Schools for Hispanics
1. University of Texas at El Paso
College of Engineering
2. Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Engineering
3. University of Central Florida
College of Engineering and Computer Science
4. San Diego State University
College of Engineering
5. Michigan State University
College of Engineering
6. Rice University
George R. Brown School of Engineering
7. University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering
8. West Virginia University
College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
9. Iowa State University
College of Engineering
10. University of California, Irvine
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Top 10 Law Schools for Hispanics
1. University of Miami
School of Law
2. University of Texas at Austin
School of Law
3. Stanford University
Stanford Law School
4. University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
5. University of Southern California
Gould School of Law
6. University of Florida
Fredric G. Levin College of Law
7. University of Connecticut
School of Law
8. Southwestern University
School of Law
9. University of California, Los Angeles
School of Law
10. Florida State University
College of Law
Top 10 Medical Schools for Hispanics
1. Stanford University
School of Medicine
2. Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
3. University of New Mexico
School of Medicine
4. Texas A&M University Health Science Center
College of Medicine
5. University of North Texas Health Science Center
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
6. University of Kansas
School of Medicine
7. University of Arizona
College of Medicine
8. East Carolina University
Brody School of Medicine
9. Edward Via Virginia
College of Osteopathic Medicine
10. Ohio State University
College of Medicine & Public Health
Source: HISPANIC BUSINESS Magazine
Immigrant childen alienated from “Naco” school?
12:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 3 Comments
27 Sep 2005
Interesting story out of Arizona via HispanicTips. Intriguing first because of the weird word play: the school is called “Naco” (which for non-Mexicans is a classist, racially charged insult flung from Mexican to Mexican) and it’s located in an Arizona town called “Ajo”. Is this one of those Latin American magical realism movies?
No. Apparently, there’s some tension going on in the town of Ajo, between Naco students and parents and authorities, with charges of discrimination against Mexican families:
The U.S. Department of Education received complaints of discrimination and sent a team to investigate. The complaint says Hispanic students who live within the school district were being asked to pay tuition while non-Hispanic students were not.
The allegation is that the children cross back into Mexico across the Arizona border after school, so they should be paying non-resident (probably international student) tuition.
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