Eighty-seven percent of Hispanic Americans value higher education as being extremely or very important, compared with 78 percent of all Americans, a new poll shows. Yet only 13 percent of Latinos have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 30 percent of the U.S. population. The Associated Press-Univision poll, co-sponsored by the Nielsen Company and Stanford University, also found that 94 percent of Latinos expect their children to attend college. The poll suggested several causes for the discrepancy between aspiration and achievement: lack of money and a reluctance to borrow it, familial obligations, and tepid support from parents and teachers. The poll, of 1,521 Hispanics, was conducted from March 11 to June 3, and had a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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5 Responses to Poll of Hispanics Finds a Gap Between College Aspirations and Success
11144703 - July 29, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Tepid support from teachers? What’s the evidence for their tepidity?
honore - July 29, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Another fake “poll” purporting to actually speak tot the experience of 40 MILLION racially, ethnically, culturally DIVERGENT populations arbitrarily rammed into the label of “hispanic” or worse yet, “latino”.So we are expected to accept this microscopic sample of 1,521 as “representative”? Of What? Having surnames that end in “ez”?Buying Goya brand vs. Old El Paso? Adopting Chihuahuas vs. Cocker “Spaniels”. Which “Hispanics” were sampled? Polish Jewish Cubans in Miami? Black Dominicans in Fort Washington, NYC? Corsican-descended Puerto Ricans in San Juan? Argentinians in Massachusetts named “Albertini”? Basques in Montana? “Chicanos” whining about their oppression at Stanford?PLEASE spare us these tell-nothing “polls” that only serve to perpetuate the 1-size fits Taco Bell “Hispanic” stereo-type. We are MORE different from one and other than we are “duh same”. Ya basta con esta estupideces.
jffoster - July 30, 2010 at 9:13 am
The original article says “Nonety-four percent of Latinos say they expect their children to go to college.” But also in the same article, the poll revealed that “fifty-four percent [of the young people ?] said their own parents either did not expect them to go to college, or did not care either way.” And, No 1, I’ve seen similar reports in other polls to the effect that many “Hispanic” / Latono parents see little value in higher education. Sooo…. A fair number of somebodies are lying to somebody/-ies.
alvitap - July 30, 2010 at 9:24 am
Honore hits the nail on the head. The sample size is flawed for various reasons. The main reason: pollsters rely on faulty population data. The U.S. Government has made it impossible to know how many persons reside in the U.S. (especially persons in non-white categories who fear the government). So, this study is flawed from the beginning. Therefore, this poll is bogus, as are others who rely on so-called official statistics. Such studies have been used to slam minorities for generations. Another reason this study is flawed is that it fails to account for those stealth (who consider themselves White) latinos who are issue from Euro and Indian gene patching. Stanford study? …. Who who Hoover thought of spending money on this racist ideology? Did you include a representative amount of White latinos in your population? I doubt it. I agree with and urge Honore’s suggestion, “Ya basta”. Doesn’t the Chronicle have any science editors?There are probably tens of millions more latinos who aren’t considered part of the 40-million research population (but should be). Do some more research and resubmit.
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