Barriers to college for Mexican-Americans

“Mexican-American high-schoolers and their white peers aspire equally to go on to college to chase their dreams, but the minority students see many more hurdles in their paths, say researchers at the University of Oregon.

The findings — when added to previous research in the field of social-cognitive career theory that looks at the relationship among interests, aspirations and outcomes — raise an important question, said lead author Ellen Hawley McWhirter, a professor of counseling psychology in the UO College of Education. “What are we going to do as a society to dismantle those barriers so that they can achieve their goals and make the contributions they want to give to our communities?”"

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