Latinas in Science 7/13/17

This is disturbing. It’s from an article in Mashable titled “Unprecedented study reveals widespread bias in space science, and it’s particularly terrible for women of color”: “For years, women in astronomy and planetary […]

*Why you should read this: Because it speaks directly to the need for more teachers of color in culturally diverse classrooms. Because “No student (or teacher) leaves their language patterns at […]

*This is a big deal – not so much the parade, but the flight director thing is huge. These are her creds: “Kerrick, the flight operations directorate division chief for […]

*Check out this #MexicanThing. The Mexican team saw it as a statement victory. Team member Juan Carlos Mariscal said “We have the same abilities as any other student in the […]

*With so much emphasis on STEM and STEM education, this might look as of it’s belaboring the obvious. This study serves as a good baseline of Latino workforce, understanding of […]

*There you go!  This is how it’s done. VL By Rahel Gebreyes, Huffington Post Luz Rivas graduated from MIT as one of the very few women of Hispanic descent, but now […]

*We need more folks like Barry Cordero. How do you reach young Latinos and provide an example for others to do the same? Here’s how. VL By Angel Canales, ABC […]

By Ronald Roach, Diverse Issues in Higher Education The U.S. workforce could employ as many as 140,000 additional African-American and Latino college graduates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields […]

By Liana Heitin, Education Week A new analysis of test-taking data finds that in Mississippi and Montana, no female, African American, or Hispanic students took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science. In fact, […]

By Brian Llenas, Fox News Latino A Greek mythological adventure to teach math to 4th and 8th graders, a hero who fights his way through SAT vocabulary words, and an […]