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Los colegios comunitarios rurales enfrentan muchos desafíos, pero muchos han convertido la determinación en innovación, con las mejores prácticas mostradas en un nuevo informe del Instituto Aspen. Los investigadores destacaron los esfuerzos en dos colegios comunitarios rurales de California. Kate Mahar, vicepresidenta asociada de innovación e iniciativas estratégicas de...
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Rural community colleges face a lot of challenges, but many have turned determination into innovation, with best practices showcased in a new report from the Aspen Institute. Researchers singled out efforts at two rural California community colleges. Kate Mahar, associate vice president of innovation and strategic initiatives at Shasta College explained...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Una vez que se conoció la noticia de que Audrey Hale era transgénero, la comunidad LGBTQIA teme ahora ser el blanco de ataques, en represalia. Audrey Hale, de 28 años, quien al nacer fue registrada con género femenino y que luego se habría autoidentificado...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Physical violence and verbal abuse are the norm for many transgender youths. Last month, as news emerged that 28-year Audrey Hale — who killed six people, including three 9-year-old students at Nashville, Tennessee’s Covenant School — was transgender, the LGBTQIA community began to fear...
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Health insurance does not help you if you can’t find a primary-care doctor – and that is a problem for 100 million Americans, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Association of Community Health Centers have found that one-quarter of medically disenfranchised people are children. Joe Dunn, senior vice...
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When we talk about child poverty and malnutrition, the first images that come to mind for many are the extreme cases in African countries or, closer to us, in Haiti, the poorest country in Latin America in terms of income per person. But the reality is that almost no...
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Alyssa Story & Carmen González CalMatters For the last decade Teague O’Shea has been in and out of college. Now, at 42 years old, he is trying again. Furthering his education was important to O’Shea, who had been working as an apprentice electrician for his local water district, but...
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Con las vacaciones aquí, el ritmo se ha acelerado en las tiendas de comestibles étnicas de todo el país, ya que los inmigrantes compran alimentos y especias que les recuerdan a su familia y su hogar. Para muchos inmigrantes, el primer lugar en el que se sienten bienvenidos y...
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With the holidays here, the pace has picked up in ethnic grocery stores across the country, as immigrants shop for the foods and spices that remind them of family and home. For many immigrants, the first place they feel welcome and accepted is not necessarily where they live, but...