Hispanic youths must improve academically

“Among Hispanic students, who make up about 70 percent of limited English students, the dropout and noncompletion rates are disturbing. In 2004, nearly one in 10 Hispanic students had dropped out of school, and one of every three between the ages of 18 and 24 had not completed high school ”” worse than any other ethnic or racial group.

These latest findings will probably do little to change the minds of those looking for proof that No Child Left Behind is failing and needs reform, or for those supporters of English-only policies or opponents of immigration. They’ll see what they want to in the numbers.”

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