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Albany, NY – PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO RENEW AND ENHANCE THE WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE ON EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR HISPANIC AMERICANS -
A national education summit was held not long ago in Washington, D.C. Its purpose - - to find ways to increase educational access for Hispanic Americans, improve their lives, and help the US recapture the highest college graduation rate in the world by the end of this decade.
The forum was followed at the White House by the president signing an Executive Order to renew and enhance the White House initiative on educational excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Glenn Busby reports. (6:45)
IMMIGRANT EDUCATION -
Just one day after the president signed his Hispanic Education Executive Order, a report came out from the American Council on Education.
Titled, "Minorities in Higher Education", it points out that many of the educational problems of the nation's Hispanic population come from the challenges Hispanic immigrants face. And it cautions that failing to take the needs of such immigrants into account "might lead to unsustainable reforms or unrealistic expectations."
According to the Council's report, influxes of immigrants with weak educational backgrounds, has emerged as a major challenge to the nation's efforts to get a larger share of its population through college.
Well, not only Hispanic education, but immigrant education as a whole, is certainly on the minds of teachers and state and local school systems all around the country. When a community experiences a significant rise in the number of school children who do not speak English, it can impact the very core of that local school.
To learn more how this actually works in practice, we visit educators in upstate New York - the capital district in and around Albany. This is but one example of what's going on in communities all across this nation.
Dave Lucas reports. (9:05)
THE ACADEMIC MINUTE
"A HISTORY LESSON ABOUT BIAS IN THE MEDIA" -
This week's episode features Paul Janensch, Associate Professor of Journalism Emeritus at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
The Academic Minute is hosted by Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, a celebrated philosopher and medical ethicist, and President of Mount Holyoke College. (2:30)