On the last nationwide civics assessment, administered in 2006, two-thirds of students scored below proficiency. Not even a third of eighth-graders surveyed could identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence. Less than a fifth of high school seniors could explain how citizen participation benefits democracy.
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That’s despite fears that forcing thousands of immigrant kids to take the exams for the first time would drag results downward.
The Inquirer featured a story about a US appeals court deciding against using Wikipedia entries to substantiate rulings to deport an immigrant
Latino, special-education and limited English students did not make enough progress in math and reading to meet the No Child Left Behind goal.
During more than a decade of attending school in North Forest, Christian Perez, a first-generation American, had one teacher who looked like him.
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Mini Biography
The amazing Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten by her well-to-do Lebanese-Mexican businessman father and her Mexican-born opera-singing mother. After having seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 in a local [...]
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for delaying the processing of more than 55,000 citizenship applications in New York, many for six months to a year or more. With immigrants who filed for citizenship in the first half of 2007 still waiting [...]
The producers and directors of the “Mundo Latino” show are proud to announce a special five-part series on Business Opportunities for Hispanics. The special segments will focus on the growing trends in franchising; what businesses are hot, especially with the Hispanic market; as well as chances to run concessions or to become distributors for those [...]
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – The growing popularity of a nationwide immigration-enforcement program that partners local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities is leading to complications that include ethnic profiling, a panel of legal experts and immigrant-rights advocates said yesterday at the National Council of La Raza Convention.
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PHOENIX - July 16 - Today, five individuals and Somos America, a Latino community-based coalition, sued Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office (MCSO) and Maricopa County, charging that they or their members were unlawfully stopped and mistreated by law enforcement because they are Latino. The class action lawsuit - which builds [...]