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 80 percent aspire to higher education, Latino students continue to face numerous challenges in reaching these goals.
The report was released by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) entitled "Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation", a new report that takes a close look at the drop-out crisis in the Latino community.
According to the report, Latinos have high aspirations, but too many doubt their ability to reach their goals. Many of the Latina girls surveyed and interviewed for this project had very high aspirations for the future. Substantial numbers of them want to have professional careers as doctors, lawyers, nurses, and scientists and understand that they cannot reach those goals without education.
The Latino community faces many challenges that help to explain the discrepancy between Latino's dreams and actual expectations. Latino students' academic achievement and dropout rates can be profoundly affected by the challenges that many of their communities face, the report said. READ FULL STORY
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