An interesting aspect of education, one that our teachers should pay special attention to in their classes, is communicating important human values that are being neglected and ignored in favor of an education designed exclusively as a tool to find employment in today’s market. While finding a job is important, it’s also necessary to teach [...]

The successful integration of Hispanic immigrants into American society is a crucial challenge for the nation, because future prosperity, as well as employment and educational opportunities for millions of people, depend on it. So it follows that programs and initiatives supporting immigrants’ education from the ground up are very important. One such program is found in [...]

Education is a field in which politics and private initiatives can contribute substantially to the improvement of our country as a whole as well as the progress of individual citizens. Specifically, the education of Hispanics presents stimulating challenges that must be faced with courage and innovation to build a better future for our country. One such [...]

A few weeks ago, the 6th Annual AP Report to the Nation was published by the College Board. The report makes reference to the growing number of Hispanic students successfully completing AP Exams, in the period from 2004 to 2009. Florida, a state with one of the largest Hispanic populations in the country, had especially [...]

One of the most positive aspects of American culture is that of individual and community responsibility. This sense of individual and community responsibility is a fundamental element of conservative ideology, an ideology that has always defended definitive action when considering the role of the States and big government, that tend to minimize the public’s power [...]

Las enormes posibilidades que abren las escuelas públicas “charter” se están comprobando año tras año. Hoy me centraré en el caso de la New America School, con varias sucursales en el área metropolitana de Denver: Lowry, Thornton, Eagle, y Lakewod (Colorado), Gypsun, al oeste de Vail, también en Nuevo México; fue fundada en 2004 por [...]