Tag Archives: college
PelotonU offers alternative to Starbucks’ online education
July 7, 2014 – 4:41 pm
By Hudson Baird, Executive Director of PelotonU
Popular opinion suggests the overwhelming priority for Latinos is immigration reform. Yet a study from the Pew Research… more
Microloan service Vittana helps students pay for school
July 24, 2013 – 1:09 am
A microloan program, Vittana, works to make financing education easier for students in less developed countries by allowing people in other parts of the world… more
Silicon Valley schools are failing Latinos
June 26, 2013 – 12:09 am
Latino students in environments built on tech and information growth are being failed by educational systems, creating a group of students who struggle with algebra… more
LanguageTwin uses tech to teach Spanish
May 29, 2013 – 11:57 pm
Language teachers commonly say that you should listen to music or television shows in the language for the exposure, but the usefulness of that is… more
Latinos’ STEM bachelor degree numbers up, doctorates down
March 17, 2013 – 7:44 pm
The National Science Foundation recently released a report titled, “Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2013” with some interesting data about… more
Study: No such thing as the Latino vote, Latinos critical to economy
February 26, 2013 – 1:40 am
A recent data set released by the Pew Research Hispanic Center allows us to look at the dominance of the Mexican vote, the crawl to… more
Study: Latinos know English, don’t graduate college and rent
February 20, 2013 – 10:52 pm
The Pew Hispanic Center recently released data on the Latino population in the U.S. The first of Más Wired’s look at the Pew Center’s massive… more
Latinos, immigrants, finish STEM at different rates
January 27, 2013 – 9:21 pm
A study from the National Center for Educational Statistics recently looked at the educational attainment of Latino and Asian immigrants, and undergraduates who had immigrant… more
Affordable ed in California with open source textbooks
November 14, 2012 – 8:32 pm
Rising costs of tuition and textbooks are not unknown to college students and there’s historically been little in terms of relief for these rising costs… more
UT Austin’s new admissions policy hurts Latinos
October 30, 2012 – 11:19 pm
Only Texas seniors in the top 7% of their graduating class will be guaranteed admission to the University of Texas at Austin for the summer/fall… more
