[lg policy] New WestEd policy brief--The Latino Education Crisis: Rescuing the American Dream

[Harold Schiffman]

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UC Santa Barbara    The Latino Education Crisis: Rescuing the American Dream
By *Patricia Gandara*

The education achievement gap between Latinos — the nation's largest and
fastest growing minority group — and most other students is enormous, and in
many cases growing. In fact, Latinos in the United States have made almost
no progress in college completion rates during the last three decades,
according to Patricia Gándara in a new WestEd Policy Perspectives paper.

In *The Latino Education Crisis: Rescuing the American Dream*, Gándara,
Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los
Angeles, observes that, in 2008, Latinos were about half as likely as
African Americans and a third as likely as Whites to obtain a college
degree. Especially in states like California and Texas, where Latinos make
up half of the public school students, this means a large segment of the
population will be ill-equipped for the education-intensive careers of the
21st century.

Educational attainment is not the only problem these students face. Gándara
notes that student achievement is highly correlated to household income and
parental academic attainment — two other areas in which Latinos trail other
groups.

In this paper, Gándara outlines a program of known policy interventions to
help narrow the Latino education gap. The interventions Gándara lays out to
address this crisis acknowledge the interconnectedness of homes, schools,
and communities.

More>> <http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/rs/1024>





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