Aprendiendo in the Outdoors
Aprendiendo in the Outdoors
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco We highlight getting to the Outdoors for a wide range of benefits, especially relating to physical and cognitive health. But a recent story by the National […]
How To Get More Latinos Into Advanced Science & Tech Classes
By Emily Deruy, ABCNews/Univision Only a small percentage of the Hispanic students who qualify for AP classes actually take them. Of the 20 percent of public school graduates in the […]
Are Latinos America’s Next Great STEM Innovators?
By James Marshall Crotty, Forbes As Americans seem to be eschewing key white-collar STEM jobs too, now comes the next and most important chapter of the Hispanic immigration experience in […]
Latino High Schoolers Giving Up on STEM
By Michael Morella, U. S. News & World Report Across the country, Hispanic and African-American high schoolers continue to lag their Caucasian and Asian peers in STEM engagement. Retaining and […]
Only 14.5% of STEM Students Nationwide are Latino
6 Things You Didn’t Know About STEM Jobs and Students By Jada A. Graves, U. S. News & World Report There is still a movement to entice female students, minority […]
Why STEM Education and Minority Achievement gaps are Interlinked
By Hope Gillette, Voxxi Economists agree – science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is critical to the future success of the United States. Yet even at the K-12 level, these […]
Why STEM Education & Minority Achievement are Interlinked
By Hope Gillette, Voxxi Economists agree – science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is critical to the future success of the United States. Yet even at the K-12 level, […]
Latino Dems Divided over House STEM Jobs Act
By Latinovations Last Friday, the House of Representatives approved the STEM Jobs Act, an immigration bill that would make 55,000 additional immigration visas available to foreigners. However, in order to expand these […]
Bien Hecho: SACNAS, Helping Latinos Achieve In Science
In 1975 less than 1% of doctoral degrees in science were awarded to Latinos and Native Americans combined in the U.S. Today that number has crept up to around 7%, […]
El Camino For Latinos Into STEM
By Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez One in five children in the U.S. today is Latino. If we are to survive in this increasingly globalized world, we’ll need all the science, technology, […]