Are Schools Doing Enough for Non-English Speaking Parents?
In a recent column about the role of parental involvement in school, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez took issue with a local school board’s practice of conducting meetings in Spanish, a...
View Article‘Nation’s Report Card’ Shows Little Progress in Reading
Last week brought the release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results -- also known as the nation’s report card. The data measuring the performance of the country’s fourth...
View ArticleStudy Highlights Academic Hurdles Latino Students Face
A new report looking at Latino achievement levels from the Council of the Great City Schools covers some familiar territory: lower reading proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational...
View ArticleWhat Third Grade Reading Says About High School Graduation
Here in Chicago last week, the Latino Policy Forum and Advance Illinois co-hosted a breakfast discussion with Donald Hernandez, a sociologist with Hunter College, City University of New York, about his...
View ArticleIn Tucson, Activists Protest the Removal of Books by Latino Authors
Depending on whom you ask, the Tucson Unified School District is either banning books or just boxing them up for storage. But everybody agrees that numerous books written by Latino authors were removed...
View ArticleFor ELLs, Storytime with Mom Leads to Learning in Kindergarten
Young children who are English language learners from low-income homes perform better in kindergarten when their mothers read to them beginning when they are just six months old, says a new study....
View ArticleReport Outlines Education Agenda for Latino Students in Illinois
Nearly one in four Illinois public school students is Latino. And their story is no longer confined to the Chicago Public Schools, where Hispanics are 43 percent of the enrollment. Most of the state’s...
View ArticleEnglish Language Learners Struggle on NAEP Writing Exam
English language learners in the eighth and 12th grades scored significantly lower than English-proficient speakers on the latest results from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational...
View ArticleMiami Prepares For Impact Of Common Core Standards On ELLs
School districts around the country are scrambling to phase in the Common Core State Standards. The consensus seems to be that more teacher training and professional development is needed, especially...
View ArticleLatino Characters Lacking in Books for Young Readers
Despite the growing diversity of the U.S. population, the representation of Hispanics in literature for young readers isn’t keeping pace. A recent article in The New York Times addresses the problem....
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