Aprendiendo in the Outdoors

Aprendiendo in the Outdoors

Mary Mata March 7, 2013

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

Mary Mata February 22, 2013

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?

Mary Mata February 18, 2013

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

Mary Mata February 8, 2013

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

Mary Mata February 7, 2013

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

Mary Mata January 22, 2013

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

Mary Mata January 2, 2013

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

NewsTaco December 3, 2012

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

Mary Mata November 1, 2011

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

Mary Mata August 3, 2011

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, […]