March 28, 2008
Colleges Need to Recognize, and Serve, the 3 Kinds of Latino Students
What comes to mind when you think of a Latino student attending college in the United States? Do you think of the Chicana who made it, despite the odds, and now leads her campus chapter of the Chicano Caucus? The Latino student who started at his local community college but dropped out after a semester? Or do you think of the child of suburban doctors who attended a mostly white private school and is enrolled in an elite university?
Because of the achievement gap between white and
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