News Taco To Go: Education, Perry, Latinas, Candy & Satire

News Taco To Go: Education, Perry, Latinas, Candy & Satire

Mary Mata August 18, 2011

Latinos Need To Go Past Bachelor’s Degrees To Graduate School Rick Perry Pursues Latino Voters Via Religion I Can Tell You’re Latina By How You Gesticulate Glorias, Or, Carmen Pecan […]

Latinos Need To Go Past Bachelor’s Degrees To Graduate School

Mary Mata August 17, 2011

By studying at the undergraduate level, and then pursuing a graduate degree, Latinos may gain influence in the highest levels of our society. Every year I work to create opportunities to […]

Latino Students Scoring Higher On ACT Test

Mary Mata

Standardized tests have been a thorn in my side for most of my life — I simply am not a good test taker — but it’s not just me. If […]

Fighting for the DREAM At The State Level

Mary Mata August 16, 2011

By Matias Ramos, otherwords.org When a group of undocumented young people took the stage at an immigration reform rally outside the White House in late July, they had a catchy chant: “Hey, […]

Wanted: More Latino Teachers

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Six percent of the nation’s K-12 teachers are Latino, compared to 20% of the Latino student population in public schools – that’s according to reports by the National Center for […]

Culturally Relevant Sex Ed – It’s Not What We Get At Home

NewsTaco August 15, 2011

By a show of hands, how many of you have had “the talk” with your children or remember “the talk” with your parents? I thought so; it’s not something we Latinos do […]

Latino Biz Owners Motivated By Family & Lack Financial Savvy

Mary Mata August 12, 2011

The findings from a new study released on Tuesday revealed that Hispanic business owners site family as a driving force behind their businesses, but only 1 in 4 have a […]

How I Learned To Drown Without Swimming

Mary Mata August 10, 2011

It is summertime now, and one of my friends wanted to go to the lake in order to swim. She was surprised to hear that I do not know how […]

$127 Million For Latino, Black Boys In NYC

Mary Mata August 5, 2011

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new initiative Thursday, funded in part by billionaire hedge funder George Soros and himself, which aims to improve the lives and future […]

White Supremacist Running Mostly Latino, Black School

Mary Mata August 1, 2011

Chispas, this one is kind of crazy even for these crazy times we live in! So a white supremacist, who has written for white supremacist publications and also hates gays, […]