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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 3 million children live with their grandparents, a 50% jump over the past decade. Of those, 882,000 live in homes where a parent is not present. While multigenerational households have long been common to working-class neighborhoods and to African-American and Hispanic...
Pointing to the rise of Black and Hispanic elected officials, steering committee member Nicolas A. Medina said "all these changes have occurred but the Berlin Wall at the Kennedy School is still up."
The fourth reader is considered a "specialty" reader...Other fourth readers serve as "ethnic" readers who review large numbers of applications from a specific minority group. By doing this, "ethnic" readers develop a greater awareness of the overall attributes of the particular minority group in an applicant class. Harvard uses...
Projected over four years, those figures meanthat 45 percent of Hispanic youngsters and 32percent of Blacks in the state may not graduatefrom high school, the study concluded.
Of the racial and ethnic groups in the study,Hispanic students ranked the highest in dropoutsat 14.1 percent a year, followed by Blacks at 9.2percent; Native Americans, 7.8 percent; Asians,4.7 percent, and whites, 4 percent.