Cultural Competency is Critical to Health Reform

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<p>&nbsp;Foreign travel can be quite frustrating if you don’t know the language. Ordering food can resemble a game of charades, replete with wild hand gestures and grunting noises. Simply getting directions from a local can become an exercise in futility.</p>
<p>&nbsp;The frustration associated with an overseas trip is generally worth it, though.</p>

Racismo de la derecha

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<p>&nbsp;Se ve con toda claridad –de arriba hacia abajo y de izquierda a la derecha— que la nueva propuesta de un grupo de activistas radicales de la derecha atenta contra los derechos constitucionales de un sector de la ciudadanía.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Su nueva meta ahora es negar la ciudadanía a los hijos de las personas indocumentadas. Esta propuesta no tiene otra intención que crear odio, racismo y volver al antro de la segregación.</p>

¡ASK A MEXICAN!

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<p><strong>Dear Mexican: How can I get Mexicans to arrive to a meeting ON TIME?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Punctual Pete</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dear Gabacho:</strong> Tell them you’re offering green cards on a first-come, first-serve basis. And then diles a gabachos to eliminate the concept of arriving “fashionably late” the way they did the Polish joke.</p>

Test scores improve, but achievement gap remains

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Scripps Howard Foundation Wire</p>
<p><strong>WASHINGTON</strong> — The achieve-ment gap between black and white students has narrowed, according to a National Center for Education Statistics report released Tuesday.</p>
<p>&nbsp;The gaps in 2007 were smaller than in previous assessments in the fourth and eighth grades in math and in fourth-grade reading.</p>