“There is little dispute that successive generations of Latinos tend to outperform their parents, if those parents are very undereducated. In twenty-first-century America, however, it is not sufficient for each generation to advance from, say, a sixth grade education to an eighth grade education. Latinos for the most part are now stalled at the level of high school completion, with dropout rates remaining very high across generations. Only one in ten Latinos has a college degree, compared to one in four white Americans and more than one in three Asians. The Latino share of college degrees has not increased for more than two decades, while for all other groups the percentage of the population with degrees has increased substantially over that period.
If the Latino population were a small percentage of the overall population, this trend might be unfortunate, but not terribly consequential, for society as a whole. But because Latinos are the nation’s largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority group, it matters very much to everyone how well these students fare in school.”
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If the Latino population were a small percentage of the overall population, this trend might be unfortunate, but not terribly consequential, for society as a whole. But because Latinos are the nation’s largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority group, it matters very much to everyone how well these students fare in school.”
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Patricia Gándara & Frances Contreras, The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies
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