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Boston may soon be saying hola to a new crop of Caribbean imports, and we’re not talking about bananas. Faced with a rapidly growing Latino population—30 percent of children in the city’s public schools are Hispanic??administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article...
...article notes that the teen birth rate among Massachusetts Hispanics is almost six times greater than among non-Hispanics. This is sure evidence of the deep-seated cultural and economic causes at work here. It is then unsurprising that more than a quarter of the population of Springfield is Hispanic??twice the state average. Lawrence, another host to this increase, features more than double even that. Whether conservative and often Catholic tradition or sheer economic reality can be cited for this peculiarity, we can only speculate about causes for so long. The State House instead must prepare itself...
...after being embarrassed that none of its 41 varsity teams have an African American at the helm.“They’re just getting the best person,” Harris said. “It’s not necessarily African American, white, Asian, Hispanic??it shouldn’t matter. It just happens that two of the frontrunners are African American, but I don’t know who else is being considered.”The athletic administration has been in frequent contact with the members of the basketball team, who have...
CourtTV’s live coverage of the Alexander Pring-Wilson murder trial has focused squarely on one angle: the divergent backgrounds of Pring-Wilson and his victim, Michael Colono. In the process, the network’s anchors have discovered every possible euphemism for “Hispanic??—our favorite was a pointed reference to Colono’s black headband—and even spent time last week ruminating on the possible effect of the hyphen in Pring-Wilson’s last name...
...It’s very hard to sit there in a class when you—not personally but you as a Hispanic??are being attacked,” Hernandez says...