August 24, 2009
High Enrollments and Low Graduation Rates Challenge Struggling States
Courtesy of the U. of Texas at Brownsville
The economy of Texas, where Hispanic people make up 37 percent of the population, depends on the state's ability to educate growing numbers of students from minority groups that have been the least likely to attend college and graduate. The University of Texas at Brownsville enrolls large numbers of Hispanic students.
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Courtesy of the U. of Texas at Brownsville
The economy of Texas, where Hispanic people make up 37 percent of the population, depends on the state's ability to educate growing numbers of students from minority groups that have been the least likely to attend college and graduate. The University of Texas at Brownsville enrolls large numbers of Hispanic students.
The South Central region, which stretches from the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border to the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, includes some of the nation's poorest and most ethnically diverse states.
These days the region also faces some of the biggest challenges to expanding access to higher education. The fastest-growing racial and ethnic groups in these states are also those that have been the least likely to attend college and graduate.
The economies of states like
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