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24 Percent Increase of Hispanics in College!

We are used to incremental improvements in education, and it seems incredibly difficult to have a massive shift towards improvement. That is why the recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center "Hispanic College Enrollment Spikes, Narrowing Gaps with Other Groups" is a very big deal.

The number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics attending college in October 2011 surged 24 percent which meant 349,000 additional Hispanic students in one year! Overall, there was a 140,000 increase in students for a record 12.2 million students in higher education.
  • White students decreased by 320,000
  • Black students increased by 88,00
  • Asian students increased by 43,000
Hispanic students have now passed black students in total numbers of students in higher education.

Amazing shift with the rate of young Hispanics going to college rising from 27 percent in 2009 to 32 percent in 2010. 

Posted by: David Saba on 8/26/2011
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