Clean Water in Schools Crucial to Coachella Valley Students
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
For many children living in the Eastern Coachella Valley Calif., food and water provided at school is often their primary source of nutrition.
Categories: Education, Health, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: cleandrinkingwater, coachella, coachellaunincorporated
Mobile Tech in Classrooms Boost English Learners
New America Media, Photo Essay, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
Use of mobile devices in a Hayward, Calif., classroom puts English language learners on the fast track.
Categories: Education, Immigration, Latino, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Photo Galleries, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: bilingualeducation, classroomtechnology, digitaldivide, Englishlanguagelearners, Hayward, mobiledevices, students, tyrrellelementary
Students’ Peer Support Program a 2-Way Street
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jun 26, 2011
Calavera Hills Middle School"s trailblazing Coyote Crossroads program is helping raise the grades of the academically challenged students, as well as their autistic classmates they are paired up with.
Categories: Education, Front Page, Health, Multi-ethnic
Tags: autism, Calavera Hills, Coyote Crossroads, grades improve, peer support
Post-9/11 Arab Americans Tell Their Stories in AAJA Project
Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, Video, Posted: Jun 23, 2011
This year’s seventh graders, 12 and 13 years old, are the first Americans to grow up with no memory of time before the searing events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Categories: Education, Front Page, Middle Eastern
Tags: arab, arabamerican, post911
Alarming Facts on Academic Experience for Young Men of Color
The Washington Informer, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
Nearly half of young men of color -- ages 15 to 24 – who graduate from high school will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead.
Categories: African American, Education, Latino, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: dead, graduates, high school, incarcerated, men of color, unemployed
Audit Finds That Tucson’s Ethnic Studies Program Is Legal
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
Independent audit conducted for Tucson Unified School District finds that ethnic studies program is perfectly legal—even as the district's superintendent orders program shut down.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Education, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Indigenous, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: ethnicstudies, LaRaza, Tucsonpublicschools
Engineering The Gateway To Success
BlackVoiceNews.com, News Report, Posted: Jun 20, 2011
The effort to open up engineering schools to more Blacks and women has grown into national organization that is now the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page
Tags: Blacks, engineering schools, National Society of Black Engineers, women
Water, Coming to a Public School Near You
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 20, 2011
A 2009 survey sponsored by the California Department of Public Health that found that in 55 percent of California school districts surveyed, less than half of schools provided drinking water during meals, and, in 40 percent of districts, no schools provided free access to water.
Categories: Education, Health, Top Stories
Tags: access, California schools, drinking water, legislation, Leno
CNN's Education Guru Faces Backyard Backlash
Hartford Guardian, Commentary, Posted: Jun 15, 2011
Steve Perry is facing growing fire in his adopted hometown for his pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps message.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Politics & Governance
Tags: black people., cnn, education, hartford co., principles, steve perry
Reflections on Education: What I Learned From My Favorite Teacher
New America Media, First Person, Posted: Jun 15, 2011
One former San Francisco high school student recalls his favorite teacher, and reflects on the qualities that made him so effective.
Categories: Education, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: education, favorite, favorite teacher, group learning, high school, leon sultan, method, sfusd, teachers, teaching
NAACP Got It Right in Charter School Debate
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 14, 2011
No matter how well charters perform, the bitter reality is that public schools will always be the school of first and only choice for the vast majority of black and Latino students.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: BenjaminJealous, charterschools, NAACP, publiceducation, publicschools, teachersunions
NAM Profile: David Thomas and the College Bound Brotherhood
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jun 12, 2011
David Thomas will be pursuing his higher education in the Fall, with help from the College Bound Brotherhood.
Categories: African American, Education, Profiles, Top Stories, Video
Tags: bayarea, collegeboundbrotherhood, mitchellkaporfoundation
Bay Area School Gets Korean Language Class, With Help From Korean Government
Korea Daily, News Report, Posted: Jun 11, 2011
A Bay Area high school is launching a Korean-language program this fall, with a little help from the South Korean government.
Categories: Asian, Education, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: bay area, government, korea, language, lowell, san francisco, school, south
CA Budget: Cutting Student Data Systems Would Harm Parents, Educators
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jun 11, 2011
Governor Jerry Brown's proposed budget fails to recognize the importance of tracking student data.
Categories: Economy, Education, Front Page, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: californiabudget, californiaschools, calpads, governorjerrybrown, publiceducation, schooldata
Study: Stark Differences in Media Use Between Ethnic, White Youth
Hispanically Speaking News, News Report, Posted: Jun 10, 2011
Minority youth consume an average of 13 hours of media content a day—about 4-1/2 hours more than their white counterparts, according to a new Northwestern University report.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Latino, Media, Youth Culture
Tags: computers, kaiserfamilyfoundation, media, Northwestern, tv, videogames
Failure not Acceptable
ChicoSol, News Report, Posted: Jun 09, 2011
Bernie Vigallon, retired early June as director of alternative education for the Chico Unified School District, built a program serving 500 kids, who suffered from alienation or abuse, learning issues, and delinquency or drugs.
Categories: Education, Front Page
Tags: alternative education programs, Bernie Vigallon, Chico Unified, Mr. Vig
Supreme Court Makes Two Key Immigration Decisions
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jun 08, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down two decisions on immigration Monday.
Categories: Asian, Education, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic
Tags: college, employer, Immigration, tuition, U.S. Supreme Court, undocumented students
DREAM Ruling: High Court OKs In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Hispanically Speaking News, News Report, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a California law that allows undocumented immigrant students to attend state universities and pay in-state tuition rates.
Categories: Education, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Youth Culture
Tags: California, college tuition, DREAM, in-statetuition, SupremeCourt, undocumented
Prince George's County High School Makes NFL History
Black America Web, News Feature, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
Three Gwynn Park High School alumni are the first three players from the same high school slated to enter the NFL in the same year.
Categories: African American, Education, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Sports, Youth Culture
Tags: AdrianMoten, GwinnHighSchool, NFL, PhilTaylor, RashadCarmichael
Calif. 5th-Grader Wins Writing Contest on Immigration
Hispanically Speaking News, News Report, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
Maya Young Wong of Altadena, California, won the American Immigration Council's 14th Annual “Celebrate America” Creative Writing Contest for her poem entitled “My Grandfather Ben.”
Categories: Education, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Youth Culture
South Korea to Fund Language Class in Bay Area Public School
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 02, 2011
A Northern California high school may soon offer new language classes besides Spanish and Chinese: Korean—thanks to the South Korean government.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Education, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: california, chinese, education, highschool, korea
CA Assembly OKs State DREAM Act
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jun 01, 2011
The state Assembly voted 46 to 25 in favor of the California Dream Act, which would allow undocumented students to qualify for financial aid and scholarships at public universities.
Categories: Education, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Tags: cadreamact, californiadreamact, dreamact
California Childcare Cuts Extend Family Homelessness
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 01, 2011
Budget cuts to childcare programs by California Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators would harm homeless children and keep their families on the street.
Tags: budgetcuts, california, childcare, earlychildhooddevelopment, education, families, homelessyouth, jerrybrown