Education

Children can join Nick Jr.’s Latina heroine, Dora the Explorer, at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) on a journey through the first-ever interactive Dora exhibition. Children will overcome obstacles, solve problems and puzzles, and find their way through the exhibition’s Rainforest, all while learning to communicate in both English and Spanish.

How can you help your children have a successful start and improve their future opportunities? How can families find better product and service values? How can you stay in touch with relatives overseas? Every day, more Hispanic families turn to the Internet as a solution for these and other important questions.

Welcome to Posada season! Every year Latino families across the country join their neighbors in recreating the procession of Joseph and Mary as they try to find hospice, or “posada.” The ritual started in sixteenth century when Spaniards brought to the tradition with them as part of their religious overhaul of the New World.

Adolescents in the United States can for the first time do what more than 1 million of their peers around the world do daily – share their lives with Pascualina, their award-winning interactive diary.

The necessity for teacher diversity is often overlooked rather than accepted as central to school reform. High-stakes tests impede efforts to expand the pool of prospective teachers of color. And the logistics of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) continue to create significant barriers to recruiting teachers of color.

Leading trends across the country, The Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) and White Memorial Medical Center (WMMC) Rainbow Children’s Center, the first-of-its-kind licensed childcare in Los Angeles, will benefit from a $1 million grant from local government and community organizations to improve quality child care in the inner city.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore the life of legendary Cuban-born singer Celia Cruz (1924 – 2003) and her impressive career with “Azucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz,” a new exhibition slated to open in May 2005.

Spanish has taken a clear lead over French as the language Americans are most likely to study in school, according to a recent study by Opinion Research Corporation.

Now http://www.aguacate.org offers more California avocado nutrition tips and recipe information for the Hispanic community. The California Avocado Commission has relaunched the “En Español” section of the California avocado web site with nutrition advice, scientific research and more innovative recipes.

CNN Presents explores the lives of four families on the front lines in the growing battle over illegal immigration in America. In “Immigrant Nation, Divided Country,” CNN’s Maria Hinojosa tracks the illegal immigration debate from a nearly deserted village in Mexico to the booming suburbs of Atlanta and the rural hamlets of North Georgia.