The classroom of Hispanic community life is open to a team of talented graduate students pursuing an education at The Florida State University Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication who have embarked on a summer internship that takes them out of the classroom and office and into Hispanic family dynamics. The project is the first of a program being developed by Dieste in partnership with FSU’s Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication.
Education
READ Fútbol Mundial to encourage non-fiction reading among Latino Kids.
The Mundial Group released READ Fútbol Mundial, a new kids magazine about soccer, in May to Miami-Dade County elementary and middle school students. Approximately 20,000 copies were requested by local teachers to distribute to their students under the premise of encouraging non-fiction reading.
Latinos striving for the American Dream get help from Good Neighbors at State Farm.
This Independence Day, State Farm officially launches a lead sponsorship role in the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Ya Es Hora (It’s Time) campaign to empower Latinos to become full participants in American life through increased civic engagement. The goal of the program is to help educate, mobilize, and integrate the Latino Community into the civic process.
The Role of Schools in the English-language learner achievement gap.
Students designated as English language learners (ELL) tend to go to public schools with low standardized test scores. However, these low levels of assessed proficiency are not solely attributable to poor achievement by ELL students. These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance–such as high student-teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students who live in poverty or near poverty.
Trends in Black/Latino Higher Education in Medicine, Law, Business,& Public Affairs Graduate Progra
The purpose of this Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) report is twofold: to provide an analysis of the enrollment trends for African American and Latino students among graduate professional programs in the fields of medicine, business, law, and public affairs, and to present other relevant data pertaining to African American and Latino students in graduate education.
U.S. Graduating College Seniors concerned about Job Prospects.
More than two-thirds of students graduating from college in the United States this year say that concerns about an uncertain economy will affect their job prospects, according to a study released by Accenture.
