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DREAM Act for California Immigrant Students Gets Push
New America Media, News Report, Seth Sandronsky , Feb 05, 2010
The DREAM Act would amend current federal immigration law and allow states to grant residency status to undocumented youth who have graduated from high school. In California, advocates are pushing for its passage.
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School Matters: Students' 'Core Needs' Not Being Met
New America Media, Interview, Carolyn Goossen, Feb 01, 2010
A leading researcher says low-income students have been hit the hardest by California's budget cuts, and that the much lauded, federal Race to the Top competition among school districts will do little to help students receive what they need most: a high quality public education.
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New America Now: The Power of Women
New America Now, , Jan 29, 2010
New America Now presents A Woman's Special featuring the only female Prime Minister of Peru, a rare example of a woman completing a Torah, and the reality of emerging roles for Muslim women today.
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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian
Big Think, , Howard Zinn, Jan 28, 2010
Howard Zinn, an historian who became part of U.S. history as a participant in civil rights and social justice movements, died Wednesday at 87, leaving behind a long legacy of writing and activism.
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College Gender Gap Narrows . . . Except for Hispanics
Hispanic Business, News Report, Rob Kuznia, Jan 28, 2010
The perplexing college gender gap in which 57 percent of all U.S. undergraduates are women has, for the first time in years, failed to grow even wider, with one exception: Hispanic men continue to lose ground on Hispanic women, according to a new study
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School Matters: California Must Raise Latino Student Achievement
New America Media, Commentary, Ted Lempert, Jan 22, 2010
The achievement gap hurts Latinos and is bad for California. With an economy increasingly reliant on an educated workforce, California’s inability to close the gap threatens the state’s future economic stability.
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