Tag Archives: Latino Education

Reflections of a Puerto Rican Teaching US Latina/o Literature in the Midwest

In a time when students, especially at high school level, hardly ever learn about literature or history other than the predominantly Anglo-Saxon curriculum school boards approve, we owe educators like Professor Marisel Moreno much more than words can say for promoting Latino studies. The end result may vary from stripping young minds off of unconscious bias to […]

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Raising the Bar: Harvard Sees Surge in Latino Enrollment

by Efrain Nieves and Victoria Cepeda Harvard College has accepted 2,158 students where 12.1 percent are Latinos according to boston.com. Harvard did not provide past numbers of enrolled Latinos but does state “it is likely that the percentages of African-American and Latino students are records.”  The overall Latino college enrollment is rising. In 2007, the percentage […]

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