LatinoGraduate.com Launched
Source: Hispanic Recruitment Services, Inc.
Hispanic Recruitment Services, Inc., parent company of LatinosinHigherEd.com, has launched www.LatinoGraduate.com, the first Latino career and employment web site designed to match the growing Latino college student population with employers looking to recruit talented interns, co-ops and college graduates within ten years of degree attainment. The site will build on the national network of Latino-serving organizations developed by its sister site, LatinosinHigherEd.com. Please share the website with your students, alumni, and colleagues.
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Strengthening Accountability to Ensure Latino Success: An Analysis of NCLB Title I Regulations
Source: Josef Lukan, NCLR
This white paper analyzes the 2008 NCLB Title I regulations finalized by the U.S. Department of Education. The regulations address accountability and transparency, uniform and disaggregated graduation rates, and improved parental notification for supplemental educational services and public school choice. This analysis also provides recommendations for the law's reauthorization.
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Changing Latino Pathways to Adulthood
Source: Richard Fry, Pew Hispanic Center
A supplemental analysis of Census Bureau data from 1970 to 2007, "The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood," finds that Hispanics -- who account for 18% of all youths in the United States ages 16 to 25, up from 5% in 1970 -- are more likely now than in the past to be engaged in skill-building activities such as work or school.
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Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap
Source: Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Hispanic Center
A new Pew Hispanic Center nationwide survey of Latinos indicates that nearly nine in ten Hispanic youths say that a college education is important for success in life, but that only about half that share say they themselves plan to get a college degree. The biggest reason young Latinos cut their education short is financial pressure to help support a family.
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SAT Gaps Widen
Source: College Board
Average SAT scores fell slightly in 2009, while gender and race gaps widened. Gaps are especially prevalent when examined by family income. Students from families with an annual income above $200,000 scored, on average, 68 points higher in critical reading than students from families earning less than $20,000 per year. Similar disparities were reported for math and writing according to the College Board SAT Class of 2009 Report..
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