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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.

The Miami Herald reported today that Univision Communications has invited all Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates to a debate on the network as the Labor Day. The debates will be in Spanish.

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.

HispanicAd.com announced the winners of the 7th Annual Excelencia Media Planning Awards at a luncheon during The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) semi-annual conference in Chicago on Thursday April 26, 2007.

HispanicAd.com presented awards for the best media plans in nine categories as well as the “Gran Plan,” and the Media Executive of the Year.

Nancy Tellet – VP Director of Strategic Planning at Siboney USA was honored by her peers with the “HispanicAd.com 2006 Media Planning Executive of the Year” award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday April 26, 2007.

Javier Saralegui – President of Univision Communications online division Univision.com – was honored by his peers in receiving the 2006 HispanicAd.com ‘Media Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in Chicago, Illinois on Friday April 27, 2007.

On March 31, at a gathering of the National Federation of Republican Women, the former speaker of the house and possible presidential candidate equated Spanish to “the language of living in a ghetto.”

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Latino International Theatre Festival of New York, Inc. announced the launch of TeatroStageFest, a two week theater festival showcasing the sights and sounds of award-winning theatre companies, performers, playwrights and directors from New York City, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The festival, which will run from April 30 through May 13, 2007, is expected to draw more than 5,000 theater-goers at seven venues in the emerging Fourth Arts Block of the East Fourth Street Cultural District and surrounding areas creating New York’s own Calle Cuatro.

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.