Parents and educators may feel helpless to stop widespread drug use among adolescents, but evidence-based interventions can make a difference by building children’s skills and adult-child relationships.
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Community colleges are increasingly offering a more affordable alternative for Latino students when it comes to getting a bachelor’s degree.
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Policies, Demand, Spur Affordable Housing Shortage in Puerto Rico.
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Latino organizations mobilize in support of “Blue Beetle,” the summer’s biggest Latino-themed movie.
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En la ciudad de Nueva York, el aprendizaje práctico está cobrando una nueva dimensión a medida que estudiantes colaboran con investigadores para monitorear la contaminación del aire en sus escuelas y vecindarios. Los alumnos usan los datos que generan para abordar las injusticias ambientales y luchar por reformas legislativas más amplias.
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As the U.S. Brazilian community grows, so does its political engagement — at times from the far right.
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Far-right extremism targeting Latinos and an uptick in mass shootings have galvanized the state’s largest cultural group to embrace gun ownership.
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Digital “nomads” seeking paradise settled in a beachfront Dominican town, hurting the local economy, while just beyond their view the Dominican government continues its systemic deportation of Haitians.
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In New York City, hands-on learning is taking on a new dimension as students partner with researchers to monitor air pollution in their schools and neighborhoods. Students use the data they generate to address environmental injustices and pursue broader legislative change.
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The band rocked the L.A. music scene in the 90s. Then it went dormant, leaving fans longing for more. Three decades later Lava Diva erupts again, rekindling memories of when it set local stages on fire.
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Silvia Rodríguez Vega made a promise to herself after working with children who drew their own fears. The result is a book that shows the powerful effect of art as healing.
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In Mexico, the government ignores long COVID, and health systems belittle longhaulers suffering neurological and neuropsychiatric aftereffects.
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Through the power of literature, oral storytelling and identity, Cuban American author Meg Medina, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, invites children into the world of books.
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Residents in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, have built the island’s first community-owned solar microgrid.
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High schools that treat trans teenagers with respect and care provide essential emotional and academic support, and help these students develop self-confidence and thrive.
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Cómo un programa sin fines de lucro en la Florida está intentando reducir la brecha que impide que las familias de los trabajadores agrícolas tengan mejores oportunidades académicas y económicas.
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One family’s quest for a better life and education for their U.S.-born children leads them south of the border.
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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face? Puerto Rico’s school system, the sixth largest in the U.S., is reeling from repeated natural disasters and enrollment losses. Can new federal attention help?
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En la ciudad de Nueva York y en todo el país, están en auge los programas educativos con financiamientos públicos para doulas de color. Un movimiento que aboga por que Medicaid cubra los servicios de doula para personas embarazadas de bajos ingresos ha tenido éxito en varios estados, y la carrera de doula se ha vuelto más accesible para las personas de color.
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How one nonprofit program in Florida is trying to shrink the academic and financial gaps for farmworker families.
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