Difference or Disorder? Researchers Develop Tool to Identify Bilingual Children with True Language Disorders by <b> Erin Geisler</B>

According to the 2000 Census, nearly one-third of Texans ages 5 years and older speak Spanish at home. Add the under-5 population and the percentage is even higher. Due to continued immigration and globalism, the bilingual population will continue to grow in Texas.

Pew Research Center Reports on Latinos Coming of Age in America by <b> Angela Provitera McGlynn </b>

This report is part of a series by the Pew Research Center looking at how America’s next generation, known as “millennials,” is reshaping our nation. Within this context, it is necessary to focus specifically on Latinos since never before in American history has a minority ethnic group made up such a large share of this coming-of-age group. Well known by now is the fact that Hispanics are the largest and youngest minority group in America, with one in four newborns and one in five schoolchildren being of Hispanic background.

Irma García: Blazing Trails & Scoring Success by <b>Jeff Simmons</b>

It’s lonely at the top for Irma García. Since 2007, when she was named the athletic director at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y., she has remained the first and only Hispanic woman to lead a Division I athletic program.

The Community College Aid Quandary

It was a nagging trend that troubled Ronald Williams. The vice president of the College Board noticed that among the many obstacles

Enrollment vs. Retention – Why Are There So Few Women Engineers? by <b> Frank DiMaria</b>

Education Trust Reports on Graduation Rates and Minorities ... and Which Schools Are Doing Best <b> Angela Provitera McGlynn </b>

“Higher education institutions that place success at the heart of their mission make it a realistic goal for every student. ... For both moral and economic reasons, colleges need to ensure that their institutions work better for all of the students they serve.” So says Jennifer Engle, assistant director of higher education at the Education Trust and co-author, with Mamie Lynch, a higher education research and policy analyst, of two reports dealing with minority student success.

2011 – A Look Forward by <b> Adalyn Hixson </b>

Latino students today are facing a K-12 education system that serves many of them poorly and often isn’t doing that well for anybody else, by the sound of things. And when K-12 doesn’t do its job, students often don’t make it to college – or are ill-prepared if they do get there.

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.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solís: Past and Present by <b> Gary M. Stern</b>

Atthe Hunter College graduation ceremony in New York in spring 2009, Hilda L. Solís, who spent four terms as a California congresswoman, gave the keynote speech. She related an incident that happened to her in high school in La Puente, Calif. At open school night, her guidance counselor told her mom that “Your daughter is not college material.

15 Tips for Minority Students to Get Accepted into Ivy League and Elite Colleges by <b> Gary M. Stern</b>

Pam Proctor adds that elite colleges are looking for a three-legged stool: top SAT scores; high GPAs; and one attribute, skill or experience that sets a student apart from the others.

Political Beat & Latino Kaleidoscope <b> Carlos D. Conde </b>

Whereas Watch Your Step Latinos Immigration reform advocates might not realize it, but Republican Gov. Jan Brewer might have done them a big favor when she signed immigration bill SB 1070, considered onerous by Latinos because it allows law enforcement in Arizona to challenge any suspicious character on his legal status.

Latinas in Medicine: Needed, Sought, Welcome Cheryl A. RIce

According to the latest figures from the American Medical Association, less than 3 percent of physicians in the United States are Hispanic. Only 3.4 percent of those are Latinas. Latinos in medicine - Latinas in medicine - Famous hispanic doctors in the United States