By Dan Lips.
The Obama Administration has signaled that it will include a $1.35 billion expansion of the “Race to the Top” (RTTT) fund in its FY 2011 budget.[1] This is in addition to the $4.35 billion for RTTT included in last year’s stimulus bill.[2] Under the Department of Education’s (DOE) guidelines for RTTT, states [...]
The 2010 Census this year will likely establish the continuing growth of the Hispanic population in America. Hispanics are the largest and youngest minority in the country at 16 percent of the total population; one in five school age children and one in four newborn are Hispanics.
By Dr. Manuel Cereijo. With the closing of the school year in June 2010, and with so many graduating students from high schools, many young women and men, and their parents, wonder what career they should select to become professionals that not only could make a contribution to society, but to themselves in life.
By Juan Rangel.
President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top grant program is the most promising education initiative in decades, giving the nation an opportunity to take a hard look at raising standards and closing achievement gaps in public education.
When it comes to improving education, any initiative is worth a try. An educational alternative that we find in the United States is the public charter school, or independent school; these schools began to pop-up during the 90s, the first school debuting in Minnesota and have the advantage of greater freedom in developing their own educational philosophy and methods.
Officials charged with safeguarding school dollars should get wise to the greedheads.
The Generation Gap Among Hispanics
James Nava
Recently, the Collage Board, an organization that compiles educational statistics, made public a report indicating that 206,000 Hispanic students took the SAT academic aptitude test this year, compared with the nearly 95,000 Hispanic pupils that completed the test ten years ago. Without a doubt, this is an important leap in [...]
James Nava
This past 16th of November in New York the eighth edition of the Latino Trendsetter Awards was presented by DTM (Defining Trends Magazine) recognizing leaders and trendsetters in the Hispanic community who produce quality work in diverse professional fields like education, music, technology, politics, banking, business, etc.
DTM’s Latino Trendsetters are those individuals who don’t [...]
We are likely to be badly advised if we base our public affairs decisions primarily on our shared characteristic with its advocates. It is not the accidental, birth-related similarity with the proponent but much rather, the soundness of his proposal that should determine the position we take. It is foolish to support a candidate because [...]
By George Handlery.
Normally, where you reside, the people around you are likely to be in their way of life, language and ethnicity rather similar to you. Encountering them on the street, waiting at the cashier, while pumping gas, their company induces no special feeling of commitment. Except perhaps that, they get ahead of you [...]
