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escape_start8203;Antonio Villaraigosa dropped his mayoral hammer after a councilman attempted to transfer some discretionary funds to help pay for office salaries in the shadow of a budget crisis at City Hall: After asking the City Council last month to

/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Following President Obama's call on Congress to pass health insurance reform, Governor Kaine outlines importance of reform for the Latino community, asking Hispanics to take part in the final march to health reform

Following President Obama's call on Congress last week to act now to pass health insurance reform, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine issued this Spanish-language video calling on Latinos to take part in the final push for health reform – reform that would benefit

Following President Obama's call on Congress to pass health insurance reform, Governor Kaine outlines importance of reform for the Latino community, asking Hispanics to take part in the final march to health reform

In this final and concluding article, I focus on three broad and interwoven themes that cut across various articles in this issue. While these themes partially overlap with those highlighted in the introduction, it is their insinuation into policy

Children of Latino immigrants are often called upon to interpret and mediate linguistic and cultural information for adults in a process termed language brokering. The present qualitative study examined the experiences of nine female first- and

Using data on 459 Latino ninth graders from the LA-SIAA and the NC-SIAA studies, we evaluate the specific educational values and beliefs that motivate the academic achievement of Latino youth and contrast the school experiences of Latino youth in an

Acculturation and ethnic identity may be associated with Latino/as' educational outcomes and be relevant to their lower levels of academic achievement. This article explores how these relationships might be mediated by considering several empirically

The lagging achievement of many U.S. Latinos is staggering. Latinos have the highest high school dropout rate. Further, second- and third-generation Latinos in the United States perform less well than do recent immigrants. These statistics belie the

Latino/a children who attend schools in the United States must learn English well for schooling success. However, bilingualism is associated with achievement in both cognition and general literacy, which are core components of academic development. We

White[ndash]Black relations have historically been the defining form of intergroup relations in the study of prejudice and discrimination. The present article suggests that there are limitations to applying this model to understanding bias toward other

Mexican American high school students (N= 24) were administered semistructured interviews about their psychological experience of ethnicity. The interview focused on individual, friendship, peer group, and family domains. Qualitative analyses of the

The United States is entering a new era, a period marked by some important demographic changes in the composition of the population, most especially significant increases in the Latino and Latino immigrant segments of society. These population shifts

Following President Obama's call on Congress to pass health insurance reform, Governor Kaine outlines importance of reform for the Latino community, asking Hispanics to take part in the final march to health reform

Following President Obama's call on Congress to pass health insurance reform, Governor Kaine outlines importance of reform for the Latino community, asking Hispanics to take part in the final march to health reform WASHINGTON, March 9

Following President Obama's call on Congress to pass health insurance reform, Governor Kaine outlines importance of reform for the Latino community, asking Hispanics to take part in the final march to health reform

Following President Obama's call on Congress to pass health insurance reform, Governor Kaine outlines importance of reform for the Latino community, asking Hispanics to take part in the final march to health reform WASHINGTON, March 9

[Also by A.W. Morgan: That Mount Vernon Statement: Beltway Right Ignores Immigration (Again). But They Still Want Your Money] The Shenandoah Valley is justly celebrated in American history as the place where Stonewall Jackson made his name driving back

The Obama administration said Monday it will ease some sanctions on Iran, Sudan and Cuba to allow U.S. exports of social-media software to help those countries' citizens 'circumvent' government censorship. The Treasury Department's decision to grant

Black and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure appear less likely to receive hospice care than white patients with the same condition, according to a report in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. 'Underuse of hospice care is

MedWire News: Black and Hispanic patients with heart failure (HF) are less likely to use hospice care than are White patients, a study of a US national sample of Medicare beneficiaries indicates. After adjusting for individual and market factors, Blacks

Joaquín Sorolla, the Spanish painter, sketched costumed villagers and arid roads around his homeland in the 1910s. He was preparing for a huge commission: Archer Milton Huntington, a railroad heir in New York, had requested murals for an octagonal

Elias Provencio-Vasquez, RN, PhD, has been appointed dean of The University of Texas at El Paso School of Nursing. Nationally, Provencio-Vasquez is the first Hispanic male to assume such a position. 'Together, we will build on the great success of the

Barack Obama won Latino support by promising to reform immigration laws – but so far, he has failed to deliver Immigration reform advocates have been abuzz with the news that President Obama is to meet with Republican senator Lindsey Graham and

NEW YORK: A new management structure is in place at Univision Communications' news and entertainment businesses, organizing operations on a company-wide basis. Alina Falcn has been named to the newly created post of president of news for Univision

Immigration reform advocates have been abuzz with the news that President Obama is to meet with Republican senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic senator Charles Schumer at the White House later this week. But insiders say the closed door meeting, which

- Latin By Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter Univision Communications is realigning its news and entertainment operations with a new management structure. Alina Falcon has been named to the newly created position of president of news for Univision and

Kudos to Jason Richwine for his fine shoe-leather work in contacting the PPIC staff and determining that the ethnic incarceration figures provided in their 2006 report Who’s in Prison? were already age-adjusted, which he mentioned in a weekend blog