School segregation worsens for Latino children compared with a generation ago
School segregation worsens for Latino children compared with a generation ago
- August 6, 2019
- Greg Duncan, education, in Black Press USA, Aug. 6, 2019
In 1998, on average, the nation’s Latino children attended elementary schools in which nearly 40 percent of their schoolmates were white. By 2010, that percentage fell to just 30 percent nationwide, according to the study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Maryland; and the University of California, Irvine. Overall, Latino children today make up more than one quarter of the 35.5 million students attending elementary schools.
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