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Educating Latinos: Part 5

In the final part of the Educating Latinos series, NPR's Claudio Sanchez talks with Hispanic families about the often-conflicting educational and cultural pressures that teenagers face. Many Latino students say they feel trapped between their parents' emphasis on their culture and heritage and the very different demands of American youth culture.

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Former elementary and middle school teacher Claudio Sanchez is the education correspondent for NPR. He focuses on the "three p's" of education reform: politics, policy and pedagogy. Sanchez's reports air regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Sanchez joined NPR in 1989, after serving for a year as executive producer for the El Paso, Texas, based Latin American News Service, a daily national radio news service covering Latin America and the U.S.- Mexico border.