Ellen S. Silber, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in French literature, but it was statistics that steered her toward her current work—running a mentoring program for young Latinas.
In 2002, Silber was working on a leadership program for girls when she stumbled across some troubling statistics on young Latinas.
“I started reading the statistics and it convinced me that this is a population that deserves my efforts,” Silber said, referring to numbers like these more recent ones:
• One in five Latinas graduates from high school in four years, according to the National Center on Education in 2007.
• The school dropout rate for Latinas is among the highest in the nation at 26 percent, according to CNET Networks in 2008. READ FULL STORY
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