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Number of Latinos in Schools Doubles
7:48 am By Maegan La Mala · Education| Immigration| children| society · Comments Off
27 Aug 2008
A lot has changed in the world since 1990, and over the past 18 years, the Latino population has grown exponentially. The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new report titled “One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students” which, as its name suggests, shows that one in every five public school students is Latino.
A majority of Hispanic students — about 75 percent — live in what the study calls “established” Hispanic states: Texas, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.In Texas, more than 40 percent of enrollments from 1990 to 2006 were Latino students.
Almost 20 percent of the nation’s Hispanic students — nearly 2 million — live in Texas.
From 1990 to 2008, the Latino public school population grew from 5 million to 9.8 million.
Via / Chron.com
Mexico City goverment recommends Cuban teaching method
7:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba| Education| children| mexico · 1 Comment
4 Oct 2006
Mexico City’s legislative assembly (ALDF) is recommending a Cuban government teaching method to bring literacy to the hundreds of thousands of people in the Federal District who do not attend school.
…(ALDF) recommended to the central and regional governments (of DF) the establishment of a teaching method developed by the Cuban government, in which minimal resources are required and through which people learn to read and write in just 7 weeks.
One Mexico City lawmaker even projects that the illiteracy problem of one of the city’s largest regions, Iztapalapa — home to over 40,000 non-literate people — could be eliminated in one year using this method.
According to La Jornada, the program, called Yo sí puedo, consists of 65 “teleclasses” of 30 minutes each, and evolves in three phases over the course of 7 weeks.
Via / La Jornada
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
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