Step up, Gov. Romney
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Tuesday, May 29, 2012
CHICAGO -- Mitt Romney got flack about skating past the immigration issue last week because a speech to the Latino Coalition's annual economic summit had been seen by some as the perfect opportunity to clarify a monstrous blunder that has been hanging over his head since early May.
Education’s revolving door
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Sunday, May 27, 2012
CHICAGO --
School principals today are younger, more diverse, have post-graduate degrees and training in sophisticated data analysis techniques. And they are likely to spin through a revolving door.
Cory Booker’s epiphany
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Thursday, May 24, 2012
CHICAGO --
The presidential candidates are not talking about issues that really matter, they’re simply delivering applause lines day after day, measuring how they play out in the media and going back to the drawing board for something zingier. This could bite them come November.
No sugarcoating this
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Monday, May 21, 2012
CHICAGO -- Prepare yourselves for an upcoming national battle against a new public enemy No. 1: Sugar.
Shut out by mainstream media
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Sunday, May 20, 2012
CHICAGO -- As recently as five years ago, I was gnashing my teeth because the television networks catering to Hispanics in the U.S. were offering only Spanish-language programs, further isolating a population that many Americans thought didn't care about fitting in enough to bother learning the language.
Hispanics in the mainstream on most issues
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Thursday, May 17, 2012
CHICAGO -- For me, the most difficult thing about a full week of news reporting and punditry regarding President Obama's historic embrace of same-sex marriage has been getting buffeted by worn-out stereotypes about how Hispanics will act on the revelation at the ballot box in November.
Mark Zuckerburg as a poor role model
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Monday, May 14, 2012
My plea to Mark Zuckerberg: Please just grow up already -- you're messing with my ability to raise my sons right.
Tucson’s Mexican-American studies program deserved better
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Sunday, May 13, 2012
CHICAGO --
A new PBS documentary on the controversy surrounding the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Program pulls the heartstrings and is worth watching.
Educating people to be parents
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Thursday, May 10, 2012
CHICAGO --
Just look at the parents who merely qualify for enhanced knucklehead status. The ones who aren’t consciously trying to screw up their progeny but simply don’t know better and end up being a destructive force in kids’ lives—sometimes even as they try to shield their children from life’s hard knocks.
A ‘magic bullet’ for student aid applications
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Monday, May 7, 2012
CHICAGO --
A possible "magic bullet" for getting more high school seniors to apply for federal student aid: professional assistance.
The affirmative-action trap
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Sunday, May 6, 2012
CHICAGO --
Much of mini-scandal surrounding Elizabeth Warren centers around whether she can rightly claim to be Native American. But who has the right to tell another whether they qualify for admittance into a particular cultural heritage? And it misses the point.
Why DREAM is still a nightmare
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Thursday, May 3, 2012
CHICAGO --
Neither the Democrats or Republicans should get too worked up over a new DREAM Act proposal. The reason is painfully simple: The jobs situation is no better than when the legislation failed in 2010.
Sotomayor’s surprise
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Sunday, April 29, 2012
CHICAGO -- Anyone who accepted that Sonia Sotomayor was a super-qualified nominee who was up for the big job because of her brains and considerable experience should have expected nothing less than the Justice Sotomayor who asked tough questions during oral arguments on the Arizona immigration law.
A lifestyle, not a food, choice
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Thursday, April 26, 2012
CHICAGO --
America, especially low-income America, needs to be taught how to consume a lifetime's worth of balanced meals so that occasional treats and splurges can be a part of a healthy lifestyle.
Lawlessness knows no ethnicity
By ESTHER CEPEDA - Monday, April 23, 2012
CHICAGO -- Like so many others in the United States, George Zimmerman is Hispanic. And like too many other Americans before him, he stands accused of doing something bad. As a group, Hispanics are exactly like whites, blacks, Asians and all the combinations thereof, in that they are a diverse mix of people—some awesome, some not.
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