Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the current House Republican whip, could be the next House Majority Leader after the "stunning" primary election defeat of Eric Cantor in the Virginia 7th District primary on Tuesday. McCarthy, who has already received Cantor's endorsement, has yet to confirm his intentions for the second-rank position in the House of Representatives, but he will need to deal with several hot-topic issues regularly being debated.
More than any others, children in immigrant households are the least likely to enroll their children in federal and state preschool programs, due mainly to language and literacy barriers.
Fresh out of college and new to New York City, young people arrive with the expectation of "Sex in the City" and "Glee"-style adventures, guided solely by the hot lights of the city and a sense of whimsy. Instead, they are confronted with the high cost of NYC's living and unshakable college student loan debt, which often forces them to pit financial obligations against one another.
Two of the three school districts that are receiving gifts from the Zuckerbergs and their foundation, Startup: Education, are largely dominated by Latino students. These students will soon benefit from finance, computers, connectivity and teacher training. The money will also go toward boosting funding for science studies and English proficiency.
Even with all of the discussions and debates among policy makers over the last few years about immigration reform and the continual deportation of the immigrant community, immigration isn't the most important issue to the Latinos. In fact, Latino leaders say they believe that the hard-eyed focus on immigration reform is "crowding out other issues facing the Latino community." So what really concerns Latinos?
A revised contract agreement that teachers at a Catholic school in Cincinnati are required to sign in order to continue teaching has several staff members outraged.
A new report from the America's Promise Alliance and its Center for Promise at Tufts University, "Don't Call Them Dropouts: Understanding the Experiences of Young People Who Leave High School before Graduation," paints a detailed portrait of this demographic.
Executive compensation at top-tier public research universities increased 14 percent, between 2009 and 2012, and increased by a third for presidents, equaling a bump to nearly $1,000,000 in annual compensation. The ballooning of salaries for presidents at the top 25 highest-paid public-research university has coincided with student debt growth and faculty disenfranchisement for the last number of years.
The fact that low-income students continue to face an uphill battle, as the rest of the nation's students flourish, is obvious to Bill Admans, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Minds Matter, a tutoring and mentoring nonprofit. In a conversation with Latin Post, Admans talked about the status of low-income students and the ways Minds Matter has worked to improve conditions for them on a local and national level.
The Supreme Court decision Brown v. Boad of Education of Topeka paved the way for school integration. Now, 60 years later, a new report assesses the status of school segregation in America and explores the transformation of the nation's school population since the civil rights era.
60 years after the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision that segregation by race is unconstitutional, segregation is still widespread in public schools across the nation.
Finland is already known for having the highest quality of life in the world despite suffering through intense cold spells and lengthy periods of darkness.
Comedian Louis C.K. can find humor in just about anything. But, he doesn't find the Common Core curriculum and standardized testing in NYC's schools funny, or so the jokes regarding the subject suggest. C.K. took to social media to rag on the practice and continued to criticize it on "The Late Show" where he appeared last Thursday evening.
In a study released earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Hispanics had the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the U.S. in 2012. Per 1,000 Hispanic teens aged 15 to 17 years old, the birth rate was 25.5 percen,t while the total birth rate per 1,000 teens across all ethnicities in the same age group was 14.1 percent, according to the CDC Vital Signs study released Tuesday. Carla Galindo, behavioral scientist for the CDC, said the birth rate among Hispanic teens has decreased, but they still rank the highest in teen pregnancies based on ethnicity.
A United Nations report released earlier this week revealed that 20 percent of teenagers in Latin American countries between the ages of 11 and 18 do not attend schools.
Theo James stars in the new fantasy film Divergent with Kate Winslet and Shailene Woodley. Here are some quick facts about the new star that will let fans get to know the hunky actor a little better.
Spanish increasingly allows access to new vehicles of success and education, but the influential language has not fogged out English as the reigning language to know. English grants access, and is recognized globally as a language that's affiliated with business and status.
Although many people in this country think tuberculosis (TB) as a disease of a bygone era and no longer a threat to modern day society they couldn’t be more wrong, the experts say. "World TB Day" is an annual event dedicated to fighting and eradicating this disease both in the U.S. and across the globe.
According to "The Recorder" in Greenfield, Mass., the popular avatar simulated video game Minecraft is now being utilized as an option for Greenfield Middle School's Expanded Learning Time after-school program. The course will enroll about 50 students from fourth-through-seventh-grades each trimester.
