Obama appoints Shakira to education commission

President Obama has appointed Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll—the Colombian singer better known around the world as Shakira—to a presidential commission on education for Hispanics, the Washington Post reports. If you are wondering why, it turns out that the multiple Grammy-winning Shakira has been involved in promoting early childhood education in Latin America for years, and, not incidentally, she endorsed Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign…

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Report: Hispanic-white achievement gap still wide in education

The Hispanic-white educational achievement gap has remained wide over the past two decades, according to a new report by the Department of Education’s statistical center that a Department statement calls “sobering,” Reuters reports. The report released on Thursday by the National Center for Educational Statistics showed that since the 1990s, scores in math and reading for Hispanic students have increased but the gap between Hispanic and white students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress has persisted…

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