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Improving Spanish-speaking Teachers

Texas Woman’s University Introduces a Bilingual Program A federal grant at Texas Woman’s University (TWU) is helping bilingual and in-service teachers become better educators by improving their bilingual skills.   The program, which launched in 2016, is called PIONERAS, the Spanish word for “pioneer.” In 2017, 24 graduate students and 42 undergraduates who are all bilingual and in-service teachers participated in it.

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Gary M. Stern

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Brown University Taking A Stand For Diversity by Michelle Adam

Diversity has been a hot topic in higher education for quite some time, yet far too often programs implemented in the name of diversity take a back seat to other concerns like finances and enrollment. Yet, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island’s Ivy League university, diversity has taken center stage—and will hopefully stay there.

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Michelle Adam

Hispanic Community April 2018

First Clues Emerge About Cuba's Future Under New President [Beyond Education]

Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the presumptive next president of Cuba since 2013, when Raul Castro named the laconic former provincial official to the important post of first vice president and lauded him as "neither a novice nor an improviser," high praise in a system dedicated to continuity over all.

Hispanic Community April 2018

California Reaches Deal On National Guard Border Mission [Beyond Education]

California has reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov. Jerry Brown said. The announcement Wednesday came after a week of uncertainty in which President Donald Trump bashed the governor's insistence that troops avoid immigration-related work.

Hispanic Community April 2018

The Latest: Cuba's New President Vows Socialist Continuity [Beyond Education]

President Mario Diaz-Canel has made his first speech as Cuba's new head of state with a pledge to continue the socialist revolution led by his predecessors Fidel and Raul Castro. Diaz-Canel says in the nationally televised speech before the National Assembly that his first thoughts upon taking office are for the "historic generation" that has led the country since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

Hispanic Community April 2018

Excavator Blamed For Island-Wide Blackout In Puerto Rico [Beyond Education]

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria. Officials said an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line. Officials said it could take 24 to 36 hours to fully restore power to more than 1.4 million customers as outrage grew across the island about the state of Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority.

Hispanic Community April 2018

Younger Party Official Faces Test As Cuba's Next President [Beyond Education]

Raul Castro travels in motorcades of imported sedans. Rings of bodyguards protect him, pistols under guayabera shirts. A different style was on display March 11 as a crowd of reporters, voters and nervous provincial apparatchiks waited outside a voting station in Santa Clara for Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the Communist Party official widely expected to take Castro's place as Cuba's next president this week.

Hispanic Community April 2018

US Says California Rejects Proposed Border Duties For Troops [Beyond Education]

The Trump administration said Monday that California Gov. Jerry Brown rejected terms of the National Guard's initial deployment to the Mexican border, but a state official said nothing was decided. "The governor determined that what we asked for is unsupportable, but we will have other iterations," Ronald Vitiello, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's acting deputy commissioner, told reporters in Washington.

Hispanic Community April 2018

Raul Castro Leaves Cuba With New Freedoms, Deep Problems [Beyond Education]

In 2008 Raul Castro took over a country where most people couldn't own computers or cellphones, leave without permission, run most types of private businesses or enter resort hotels. Castro set about re-engineering the system he had helped create and Cuba opened dramatically over his decade in office.

Hispanic Community April 2018

'People Are Still Suffering': MLB Back In Storm-Hit San Juan [Beyond Education]

Puerto Rico is about to host its most significant sporting events since Hurricane Maria dramatically ravaged the islands seven months ago. Major League Baseball returns Tuesday to San Juan, with Cleveland and Minnesota opening a two-game series that many hope will remind the rest of the world that recovery from the storm is far from over.

Hispanic Community April 2018

Guard Faces Tricky Dance In California Border Mission [Beyond Education]

California Gov. Jerry Brown is crystal clear that his National Guard will help President Trump go after drugs and thugs on the Mexican border, but not immigrants. Drawing that line may be hazy. Brown's pledge of 400 troops allows the president to boast that governors in all four border states back his mission to send the Guard on its third large-scale deployment since 2006.

Hispanic Community April 2018

California To Join Guard Border Mission, But With Conditions [Beyond Education]

California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump's call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border, but rejected the White House's portrait of a burgeoning border crisis and insisted that his troops will have nothing to do with immigration enforcement. The Democratic governor broke a week of silence Wednesday by agreeing to contribute 400 troops, though not all will be on the border.