Problems Money Won’t Solve

President Obama has figured out that, for African-Americans, the next epic civil rights battle will be fought not in the streets but in the classroom.
In a recent interview with black journalists, Obama identified education as the most important challenge facing the African-American community.
“If we close the achievement gap, then a big chunk of economic inequality [...]

41% of Latino girl students fail to graduate from high school in U.S.

A report released here Thursday revealed the serious drop-out crisis in the Latino community in the U.S. with 41 percent of Latino girl students failing to graduate on time with a standard high school diploma.The report said while 98 percent of high school seniors in the U. S. want to graduate from high school, and [...]

Hispanics 20% of America’s students

Roughly one-fourth of the nation’s kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.
via TH – National/World Article.

Latinos outnumber blacks in Illinois schools

When Superintendent Robert Bagby walks the halls of his central Illinois schools, he can hear five different languages. Until sixth grade, half his students learn in English part of the day and in their native language during the rest.
“None of those factors mean that kids can’t and don’t learn. It just makes our job that [...]