Statistics are alarming. US households own an average of 13 credit cards and owe about $8,000. Forty percent of families spend more than they earn each year. Sadly, one in every 100 families is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Education
Education Summit On Children, Media and Literacy.
The U.S. Department of Education and PBS are hosting a Ready To Learn summit titled “A Child’s Life: Learning, Literacy and the Role of the Media,” to be held on Feb. 3-4, 2005 at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD.
AAF Increases Number of Most Promising Minority Recruits.
The American Advertising Federation (AAF) Most Promising Minority Students (MPMS) program is providing the highest level of qualified minority candidates in its history to corporations seeking top-tier advertising and marketing talent. Increasing by 60 percent in the last two years, the 2005 MPMS program is the advertising industry’s largest and most comprehensive diversity hiring solution.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan Debuts Dora.
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.
Internet Access @ Home Helps Children Be Successful @ School.
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.
Os Pido Posada – A Hispanic Xmas Opportunity.
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.
Pascualina Pre-teen Diary Lands On US Shores.
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.
Groups Examine Factors Impacting Minority Teacher Recruitment.
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.
Improving Hispanic Children’s Reading Skills.
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.
