Education

The college-bound “Millennial” generation born between 1982 and 2000 will represent the next mass affluent group. Financial institutions will need new marketing approaches.

Registration is now open for the 4th annual AAAA MAIP Diversity Career Fair. The event, which takes place Thursday, August 9th in New York City, offers an opportunity for agencies to meet the graduates of the 2007 Multicultural Advertising Intern Program, as well as alumni of the program. Event sponsorship opportunities are also available. Participation is open to AAAA Members only.

Jennifer Carpena, a student from Aibonito, Puerto Rico, will spend the summer of 2007 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. as a participant in the competitive NASA Academy. Carpena currently attends the University of
Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

A new report from the Department of Education reveals Hispanics are driving the surge of the nation‚s minority public school population, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the significant need to improve children’s literacy among children from Hispanic and other minority communities.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law an analysis of recent data from standardized testing around the country shows that the fast growing number of students designated as English language learners are among those farthest behind.

Ancestry.com announced the release of the first and only online collection of border crossing records for individuals who crossed the U.S. – Mexico border between 1903 and 1957. This new collection, which includes more than 3.5 million names, is the latest addition to Ancestry.com’s Immigration Records Collection, which also includes the largest online collection of U.S. ship passenger list records featuring more than 100 million names from 1820 to 1960.

A college degree can translate into higher earnings for workers in Puerto Rico — about twice as much on average as those with just a high school diploma — according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS). The contrast in annual earnings was even greater for people with advanced degrees, who earned about three times as much as those with a high school degree.

In his controversial new book, “Clipping Their Own Wings,” author Ernesto Caravantes tackles one of the nation’s most troubling trends and toughest social problems: Latino underachievement, and focuses the root of the problem squarely on the shoulders of the Latino culture itself. Hispanics are now, officially, the largest minority population with 35 million living in the U.S., exceeding African Americans in number. Despite the sizeable numbers, this minority group is doing poorly in education.

The Microsoft Corp Chairman Praises The Success Of Navega Protegido, A Joint Program Of Ricky Martin’s Charitable Foundation And Microsoft, Aimed At Protecting Children & Families Across Latin America From Hazards On The Internet Such As Identity Or Asset Theft And Child Predators

Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico, celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force of 4,500 men faced 6,000 well-trained men of the French Army. The battle lasted four hours and ended in a victory for the Mexican Army under Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza. Along with Mexican Independence Day on Sept. 16, Cinco de Mayo has become a time to celebrate Mexican heritage and culture.

A recent study found that 80 percent of Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) scholarship recipients graduated in five and a half years – a graduation rate that is almost 30 percent higher than the national average for students of all races and ethnicities for the same period. The six-year national graduation rate for all Hispanics students at four-year institutions is 43.5 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.