The High Schools Hispanics Attend
A report on the characteristics of high schools attended by different racial and ethnic groups finds that Hispanic teens are more likely than blacks and whites to attend the nation’s largest public high schools.
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VI. Conclusions
In most communities, access to schools is determined by the neighborhood in which a youth resides. Hispanics do not live in the same communities as blacks and whites and do not attend the same high schools. The most recent enrollment data reveal that Hispanics not only attend different schools than other youths, they attend high […]
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IV. Differences in Public High School Characteristics at the State Level
A second factor underlying why Hispanic youths attend different kinds of high schools at the national level is that Hispanic youths attend differing kinds of high schools at the state level compared to the high schools educating white or black youth. In the seven states with large Hispanic enrollments the public high schools that Latinos […]
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III. Why Hispanics Attend Different Kinds of High Schools: The Role of Geographic Concentration
One explanation for why Hispanic youths attend different kinds of high schools than other youths stems from their geographic concentration in certain states. Hispanics tend to be educated in public high schools in different states than the public high schools that educate whites and blacks. Table 2 reports the distribution of Hispanic, white and black […]
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II. Introduction
Efforts to improve secondary education increasingly emphasize the size and structure of high schools. The U.S. Secretary of Education is actively promoting the expansion of the standards-based performance measures mandated in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to high schools as well as a discussion of the most effective models of high school […]
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III. Changes in the Nature of College-Going in States with Large Hispanic Populations
This section assesses changes in first-time, full-time freshman enrollment in seven states with large Hispanic populations: California, New York, Arizona, New Jersey, Florida, Texas and Illinois. Hispanic first-time, full-time enrollment in these seven states accounts for nearly 80 percent of the U.S. total. In 2001, these seven states accounted for nearly 150,000 of the 190,000 […]