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Let’s face it. Children don’t have it easy. As a high school teacher, I sometimes joke with my teenaged students that ,unlike the adults that often give them the “when I was your age” speeches, if I had the choice, there is no way I’d be a teenager again — with family issues out of Read More
You just didn’t come home with anything less than a 90 on your report card: that was the rule at my house, and needless to say, it worked. At some point after middle school, my parents didn’t really need to remind me about the “you-better-get-all-A’s-or-else” rule, because it became mine. I could talk about my Read More
Latinos are getting their learn on. From the Pew Hispanic Center: “For the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5% share of all college enrollments. Hispanics are the largest minority group on the nation’s college campuses, a milestone first achieved last year Read More
As we’ve recently pointed out, Latinos are making enormous headway in educational attainment, but we still lag behind non-Hispanic whites. While there are certainly institutional barriers to reaching a higher education, we’ve shared before that there are also steps high schoolers can take to better their college application, and be prepared for the demands of Read More
I do not enjoy speculating on stereotypes. I am particularly peeved when the stereotype involves gender. Yet, what factors may account for the recent data that signals that in addition to attending college in larger numbers, Latinas are also likely to plan more ambitiously for their near future than are Latino men. The referenced report cites Read More
A year ago, I wrote about how the Great Recession hit Latinos hard. At the time, I was hopeful that the worst was behind us. Perhaps that was my natural Latino tendency to be optimistic. After all, Latinos “are worse off, but they are still more positive about where the country is going” compared to Read More
When we look at the Latino experience in the States, we see so much diversity that it can be hard not to get lost or confused. Who are we, really? Depending on one’s physical appearance, it may be easier to identify with other groups who may or may not share a similar history of marginalization Read More
Educated Latinos are essential to U.S. economic strength. Census data continues to show that black and Latino children make up the majority of babies born in the United States, yet they continually underperform their white peers. However, there is a silver lining to a booming minority population. Many issues facing these communities are going to Read More
In my previous article, I discussed a phenomenon that is often overlooked by policymakers and pundits: how the experience of poverty produces its own psychology. Living in constant poverty, for example, is detrimental to both the decision-making process and to overall memory function. Clinically, I often describe the experience of poverty as being similar to Read More
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is a time for moving and shaking. I had the privilege of seeing if first hand yesterday, June 10, as I joined the crew from Being Latino and Fox News Latino to celebrate nuestra isla y herencia. From the dance troupe representing Banco Popular to Geraldo Rivera, everyone on that Read More