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Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in Latin America, Part II

Earth’s unique biodiversity faces severe human-driven threats. The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve exemplifies both rich natural and cultural heritage and ongoing challenges, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable conservation, community involvement, and greater awareness to protect ecosystems for future generations.

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Did you know? Sor Juana’s Fearless Words

A leading intellectual voice of the seventeenth century, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz defended women’s right to knowledge and justice. In A los hombres, she criticizes the hypocrisy and double standards with which society judges women.

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4-H And New York Life Foundation Inspire More Latino Youth To Pursue Higher Education [On A Positive Note In Education]

National 4-H Council recently received a three year, $1.5 million grant from the New York Life Foundation to enable more Latino students to successfully transition from middle school to high school, graduate on time and pursue a college education. The grant will provide continued support to the Juntos 4-H program launched in 2015 while expanding the program to new markets in California and Illinois.

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School Library April Issue 2018

Established in 1996, the Pura Belpré Award is named after a pioneer in Latino librarianship. Pura Belpré revolutionized the role of Latinos and people of color in the library field and empowered the Puerto Rican community through her work. Pura Belpré Award-winning titles are highly recommended for use by librarians, educators and parents, and so it is our pleasure to feature this year’s winning and honor books. A teaching guide and an online video about Pura Belpré are available through Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies at https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/research-education/education/pura-belpr%C3%A9-documentary-teaching-guide

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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