Schools wherein Hispanic students make up at least 25 percent of undergraduate enrollment account for only about 6 percent of colleges and universities in the United States, but they enroll almost half of Latino college students. This new report by Excelencia in Education offers background, history, and context, and examines what it means that a small (albeit growing) number of schools teaches so many of our nation's Latino students. Short fact sheets are also available.

Immigration is a hot-button issue right now. In Congress, the House has passed legislation to impose new controls and tougher penalties for illegal immigrants, and the Senate is wrestling with the issue. Meanwhile 14 western-state governors have endorsed President Bush’s plan for guest-worker visas. Often lost in the discussion: the question of whether and how to integrate the children of long-term illegal immigrants fully into U.S. society – for many of them, the only society they have ever known. Connect for Kids offers some resources to put this issue into perspective.

Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) is holding its 10th annual summit in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Founded by a 1960's-era Chicano activist, Escuela Tlatelolco continues to put social justice and respect for children's cultural roots at the center of its approach to teaching and learning. Robert Ebisch profiles a school that seems light-years away from the national obsession with raising test scores--yet successfully sends most of its low-income, predominantly minority students on to college.

Hispanic youths are much more likely than white or black youths to attend public high schools that are large, that have a high student-to-teacher ratio, and that have a substantial proportion of students who come from relatively poor families, all characteristics associated with lower student performance, reports the Pew Hispanic Center.

Nations may squabble about the precise locations of their borders, but in a secondary-school cafeteria everyone knows where the lines are drawn: the jocks here, the it-girls there, and the Goths as far from the rest as possible. Race, language, gender, clothes, music--kids slice and dice themselves along all kinds of lines. That's where Mix It Up comes in. Tamekia Reece reports.

On this day in 1995, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Federal policies exclude many legal immigrants from public benefits like food stamps or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) assistance. Many states have stepped in, using their own funds to fill in the gaps—which means the services and supports available to immigrant families depends largely on where they live. This new brief from the National Center for Children in Poverty looks at what’s happening and where children in low-income immigrant families do and do not have supports available to native-born families.

In 2004, one of every seven workers in the United States was foreign-born; a decade earlier, that number was one in ten. As the baby-boom generation reaches retirement age, immigrants are likely to hold an even greater share of jobs in the future. This report from the Congressional Budget Office looks at the role of immigrants in the labor market—the skills they bring; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on the native-born workforce.

New research from the Urban Institute finds that limited English proficient (LEP) students are highly concentrated in a small share of America’s public schools. In fact, 70 percent of LEP students in kindergarten through fifth grade are enrolled in only 10 percent of the country’s public elementary schools. Among the findings: most LEP students were born in the U.S. And the share of students in kindergarten through 12th grade with a foreign-born parent tripled from 6 percent in 1970 to 19 percent in 2000.