Hispanic Community January 2018

Tillerson Tells AP Cuba Still Risky; FBI Doubts Sonic Attack [Beyond Education]

The United States would be "putting people intentionally in harm's way" if it sent diplomats back to Cuba, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says in an Associated Press interview, even as a new FBI report casts doubt on the initial theory that Americans there have been hit by "sonic attacks."

Hispanic Community January 2018

Salvadorans Fear Their Country Not Prepared for Returnees [Beyond Education]

El Salvador is preparing to receive the nearly 200,000 Salvadorans who may have to return following the Trump administration's decision to lift their temporary protected status next year. Salvadorans who have stayed in the U.S. with temporary protected status would have to leave by Sept. 9, 2019, unless Congress comes up with a solution allowing them to stay.

Hispanic Community January 2018

The Latest: US to End Special Protections for Salvadorans [Beyond Education]

Officials say the Trump administration is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, forcing nearly 200,000 to leave the country or face deportation. El Salvador is the fourth country whose citizens have lost Temporary Protected Status under President Donald Trump. They have by far been the largest beneficiaries of the program, which provides humanitarian relief for foreigners whose countries are hit with natural disasters or other strife.

Hispanic Community January 2018

Northwest Iowa Schools Face Spanish Teacher Shortage [Job News in Education]

The Iowa Department of Education and U.S. Department of Education annually compile lists of subjects with teacher shortages. In the 1990s, there was only one school year when Spanish teachers for grades 7-12 didn't make that list. Since then, when the national category was broadened to all foreign languages, there were only two years — 2013-14 and 2014-15 — when a shortage of foreign language teachers in Iowa was not found.

Hispanic Community January 2018

Homeland Chief: Wait and See on Citizenship for Immigrants [Beyond Education]

The Trump administration would consider immigration legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people, the U.S. Homeland Security secretary said Tuesday, while emphasizing no decision on that issue has been made and a border wall remains the priority. Congress is considering three options, including citizenship or permanent legal status for people who were temporarily shielded from deportation, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in an interview.

Hispanic Community December 2017

Hispanic Outlook's José López-Isa Speaks at ALPFA Event

Hispanic Outlook's José López-Isa speaks at an Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) event.

Hispanic Community December 2017

2017 Retrospective: Harvard Jazz Band Visits Cuba in Education, Culture Exchange

This past summer, the Harvard Jazz Band visited Cuba for an eight-day trip filled with music, dance and traditions. Lead by Director Yosvany Terry (who is himself a native of Cuba), the band’s journey is documented in a special video.

Hispanic Community December 2017

MIA Hotel Agent Named Employee of the Year after Saving Baby’s Life—On a Positive Note Beyond Education

Miami International Airport (MIA) Hotel front desk clerk Jose Consuegra has been named Miami International Airport's 2017 Employee of the Year for his heroic efforts to resuscitate an infant traveler who had stopped breathing. Consuegra was recognized by Miami-Dade County and MIA officials at the airport's annual Rewards and Recognition Year-End Gala. The Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau made arrangements to fly the child, Mia, and her mother, Alessandra Rossi, from Haiti to the awards ceremony, where they were reunited with Consuegra for the first time since the incident.

Hispanic Community March 2011 Premium

University of Illinois at Chicago’s Luis Alberto Urrea: From Despair to Acclaim, <b> Clay Latimer </b>

It was February 1982 and Luis Alberto Urrea, 26-year-old University of California- San Diego graduate, was doing full-time relief work with shanty dwellers in Tijuana’s wretched city dump. Surrounded by surreal squalor during the day, Urrea slept on relatives’ couches in Southern California at night, broke and depressed and worried about his future. Desperate to start over, Urrea wrote Lowry Pei, his college writing instructor who was now at Harvard, and asked for help.

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Clay Latimer

Hispanic Community April 2011 Premium

Arizona-Bred Kris Gutiérrez New President of Research Association <b> Clay Latimer </b>

Ithas been nearly half a century now, but Kris Gutiérrez can still picture her school days in Miami, Ariz., a small desert town 90 miles east of Phoenix. She can still see her teachers, spurring her on through another project; her father, coming to another school function after a long day in the copper mines; her friends, cramming for an upcoming exam.

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Clay Latimer

Hispanic Community April 2011 Premium

Anthropologist Michael Vásquez - Digging into the Future <b> Clay Latimer </b>

When Michael Vásquez began visiting the Hopi Indians 20 years ago, the Northern Arizona University (NAU) anthropology professor ran into a serious obstacle: generations of anthropologists before him had thoroughly alienated the tribe. “Anthropologists published books, got tenure, while native communities haven’t gotten anything,” he says.

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Clay Latimer

Hispanic Community January 2011 Premium

A Field of Broken Dreams <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Social issues on their way to becoming legislation have a way of becoming identified by a catchy metaphor that captures their objectives. It’s usually intentional, like the DREAM Act, an apropos label if there ever was one. And if there ever was a piece of legislation that merited passage, it was this, with all the elements to ease some of the problems created by theinflux of illegal immigrants and provide a positive, if partial, solution to this illicit diaspora besetting the nation.

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Carlos D. Conde