Many high-achieving Latino students miss the opportunity to succeed academically because their needs are poorly understood, according to a new report from ETS and a University of California researcher. As a result, these students’ academic futures are left “hanging by a thin thread of hope.”
Education
Should Americans Be Allowed to Travel to Communist Cuba?
A spirited discussion on whether the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba should be lifted is one of the highlights of the newly-launched “Cuban Affairs Journal,” published by the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS). The discussion is between the former Chief of Mission of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, James Cason and William M. LeoGrande, Dean of the School of Public Affairs at American University.
Family Literacy Programs Targeting Hispanics Prove Successful.
Hispanic adults in the U.S. are not moving toward a positive educational or economic future for themselves, their families or the communities they live in according to a U.S. Department of Education study.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy, “A First Look at the Literacy of America’s Adults in the 21st Century,” determined that 11 million adults in the U.S. are nonliterate in English and that the overall literacy rates for
Hispanics have declined since 1992. The average score of whites was largely unchanged from 1992 to 2003 with blacks and Asian/Pacific Islanders making gains.
