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STEM

Obama Announces STEM Teacher Training Initiative

President Barack Obama announced a $250 million initiative Wednesday to train math and science teachers and help meet the goal of pushing America’s students from the middle to the top of the pack in those subjects in the next decade.

January 6, 2010

Latinx

Students Begin Washington Trek for Immigrant Rights

Four South Florida students celebrated the New Year by setting out by foot on a 1,500 mile journey they are calling the “Trail of Dreams” to raise awareness about national immigration reform.

January 3, 2010

Latinx

Obama Naming Hispanics to Top Posts at Record Pace

More than half of the Hispanic appointees, whose jobs required Senate confirmation, hold an Ivy League degree, and more than a quarter, like the president, have a diploma from Harvard, an Associated Press review found.

December 21, 2009

Latinx

Immigration Reform Next for Obama Cabinet

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke took a page from their personal histories in making an economic argument for why immigration reform should be the next domestic agenda item for President Barack Obama’s administration.

December 17, 2009

Latinx

Mass. Immigrant Tuition Bill to Get New Push

The failure of Massachusetts, a left-leaning state that was the first to legalize gay marriage and the only so far to require health insurance for all its residents, to pass a bill allowing in-state tuition for undocumented students is a source of frustration for advocates.

November 15, 2009

Health

PARSING THE REACTION TO OBAMA

Scholars say extreme criticisms of president defy simple explanation.

October 28, 2009

African-American

Parsing the Reaction to Obama

Scholars say extreme criticisms of U.S. president defy simple explanation.

October 26, 2009

Students

Georgetown University students call for immigration reform

On Oct. 13, students from MEChA, a student organization at Georgetown University, voice their support for comprehensive immigration reform, bringing their own stories to a rally at the Capitol.

October 18, 2009

Community Colleges

Stalled Pursuit of Higher Learning

Undocumented students across the country have been hampered in their quests for higher learning by the dismal economy and restrictive state legislation targeted at immigrants.

October 15, 2009

Community Colleges

DERAILED : ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND RESTRICTIVE STATE LEGISLATION STALL UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS

As a founder of the University Leadership Initiative, an advocacy group for undocumented students in Texas, Julieta Garibay sorts through the numerous e-mails her organization receives daily.

October 14, 2009

Students

Family, Education Struggles Motivate Immigration Reform Activism

Latino students, including Georgetown University freshman Alma Huerta, are seeking to revive national immigration reform debate.

October 13, 2009

Latinx

Exploring U.S. Latino Diversity on CNN’s ‘Latino in America’

Following the Washington preview of “Latino in America,” scholars and activists say CNN made a positive effort at capturing the wide diversity of U.S. Latino identity and culture in documentary series.

October 12, 2009