Crisis In Latino Education

According to Latinos Rebel, undocumented students must stay enrolled in schools to remain in the United States and to contribute as gainfully employed adults, but the schools are not necessarily invested in their success as they are forced to comply with mandates of NCLB and ESSA. The fact is that school attendance and graduation rates occur in the contexts of undocumented young people’s lives, which are fraught with multiple difficulties. Undocumented students may need additional school rates are used against schools and undocumented students lives are full of many difficulties that impact their performance. These difficulties include negotiating the world in a language other than their own, lack of support for ESL, trauma, interrupted formal schooling, legal challenges and poverty. Only 54 percent of undocumented students who arrived at age 14 or older complete high school. For those who arrived before age 14, 72 percent complete. Compare these statistics to authorized

The United States Hispanic population continues to increase each year. In turn, school populations of Hispanics increase as well. Hispanics, although improving academically, continue to have high school dropout rates, higher than other racial and ethnic groups and continue to lag behind school peers. The discrepancy between Hispanic students and other students’ achievement is the result of many factors, including acculturalization, language acquisition, poverty, and school factors. Schools

Growing up in a Latino household is hard. My parents only spoke Spanish therefore my first language was Spanish. For the first few years of my life this was not really a problem, I enjoyed life as any normal little girl would. I got to talk to all of my cousins and all of the neighbor’s children. It wasn’t until I got to school that it became real that I was going to learn English. Don’t get me wrong I always knew I had to learn English my parents always talked to me about school and helped me as much as they could. It was also around this same time where I started to understand that it was not only hard for me it was hard for them as well. My parents had to live in this country not knowing the main language spoken.

Various details, like teachers giving up on students, or teachers easily removing a student from class can attribute to the success young Latinos will have with their education thus impacting the surveys taken on education levels of Latinos as shown in Latinos in the United States. Many individuals had the knowledge of what education can lead to and what high standards were and part of the problem of why they do not follow it is their economic situation, as discussed in class. During class, we watched a documentary called “The Graduates” and undocumented students feel that education may not be a possibility and that reminds me how

Often times a child with a Hispanic background is not given the opportunity to rise to his

When one thinks about Hispanics, all too often the image of a field full of migrant workers picking fruit or vegetables in the hot sun comes to mind. This has become the stereotypical picture of a people whose determination and character are as strong or stronger than that of the Polish, Jewish, Greek, or Italian who arrived in the United States in the early 1900's. Then, the center of the new beginning for each immigrant family was an education. An education was the "ladder by which the children of immigrants climbed out of poverty into the mainstream." (Calderon & Slavin, 2001, p. iv) That ideal has not changed, as the Hispanic population has grown in the United States to large numbers very quickly and with little fanfare. Now, the

The Presentation Topic- “Past and Future of Latinos in USA” was focussed on the socio-economic condition of Latinos over the decades. The main areas of research were education, population growth, politics and job opportunities along the time window. A clear distinction was drawn in these areas of research for better understanding of the impact of lives of Latinos in USA.

Imagine a world where whites weren’t offered education. Not just the world, imagine instead if whites here in America, weren’t given access to quality education. The visionary and ethical leader this paper will discuss broke the barrier to quality education for the Latino Community.

Without education one can only get so far in life and considering that most of the parents of the students did not have the proper education. Adelante’s goal was to offer them educational assistance the best way possible. Even though, you may think that learning may come easier to a child that knows two language simply for the fact that he has those two languages under his/her belt on the contrary for most Latino students it is much more difficult to understand certain subjects in the regular public school system. The key question to this is what is the public-school system doing to help Latino students achieve their goals and to continue in school? You may think that the answer to this would be easy to answer but, believe it or not, it’s not. According to Fry, “Latinos are far more likely to enroll into two-year colleges than any other group” (Fry, pg. 6) Another question you may ask yourself when reading this statistic is why not go ahead and shoot for a four-year institution? Well, let me break this down for you, Hispanic parents, just about 65% of them, know what the importance of going and attending college. They see not only the financially benefit that will come along with it but, they also see the maturing process it will bring to their child when doing so. But, wait, so if parents are supporting their child to go to college why do Latino students short–hand their selves with just a two-year Associates Degree? Which goes back to the first question, what is the public-school system doing to help these students out? One of the few programs offered out there is Adelante, their entire goal is to help, involve, and open the eyes of the Hispanic community that there is much more out there for their Children and even for them. The issue with this is that there is only one program that is doing this for the Latino community in Louisville, Kentucky.

Being Hispanic also means being able to overcome daily struggles that others would not have to face. I grew with parents that didn’t speak English and couldn’t help me with assignments that I didn’t understand. I remember asking friends how they were able to do a problem that I really struggled with and often times them saying it was their parents that helped them. I have the distinct memory of my two best friends having a tutor for AP Statistics and when I asked my mom if I could have a tutor also, she said that we couldn’t afford it. While my friends were getting help with their homework from professions, I had to sit in my room and figure out how to solve something on my own. I also saw the struggle we faced as

This book was considered as the most debated U.S. Latino texts. In the book, Rodriguez used his personal experience in discussing social and political issues. Though it is autobiographical in nature, it is a collection of personal experiences that shaped Rodriguez’s understanding of culture, education, and the formal education system in America. Rodriguez tackled the educational system wherein he discussed the change of language in the beginning of a child’s education- Spanish to English. In his book, he provides a thoughtful critique of contemporary education and its shortfalls. He opposed bilingual education and affirmative action. He shared his views on the inequality of educational system and the specific educational needs of minorities in the United States. He used his upbringing and self exploration as a Mexican American, and his extensive schooling to examine contemporary education.

The Latino communities and the African American communities are our future and the government needs to step in and create a fair education system that is accessible to all. Meaning that all the school, even in the poorer areas, need sufficient funding with good programs and proper teachers who care rather than those who just go through the motion. We should not have such an unequal education system that sets its future generations up for failure. When one school gets more funding because it does better due to the area that is located in and another school gets minimum funding because they don’t have the initial funding to keep up with the needs of the area, it’s a problem. The U.S. society is breeding the inequality that carries throughout the generations; it breeds the unequal opportunities that are prevalent and creates an unending cycle of dysfunction within a society that begins in the standard American home and family. We do not create an equal system, we do not enable parents to parent happy and healthy children, we do not allow love to flourish or families to do life together. From the earliest of socialism there is dysfunction; broken parents, broken children, and broken homes. The government needs to allow parents to be parents in a manner that will create respectful and happy children, they need to provide the basic needs to single parents such as: childcare, food, housing; so that the parent can work a decent amount of time and still be the parent that child needs. The Government needs to realize that it is debilitating itself from the inside out and that if things do not change soon, we will be our own

Imagine how different your school life would have been if every high school class was suddenly was taught in a foreign language. This was the sudden, shocking reality that many young Puerto Rican children and teenagers faced after the United

The Latinos education crisis is a prevalent issue in the United States. More and more research has uncovered magnanimous evidence that our education system is failing the students and thus creating a pipeline away from success and higher education and into gangs, prison and poverty. From 2011-12 alone Latinos made up almost a quarter of the enrolled students in public schools, Hispanic status dropout rate was 13% (higher than both African Americans at 8% and Whites at 4%), and 5% of all doctoral degrees conferred were earned by Latinos. (NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 2013). The crisis is a result of compounding failures and the perpetuation of stigmas within the educational, governmental and societal systems. As each of these systems are complex and composed of countless factors, addressing the issues the Latino population face, specifically within schools, is often overlooked and underaddressed. In light of the problems Latinos must compete against, this paper will address the potential for change and how it can be wrought, beginning on the microlevel of the educational system, by mandating and introducing culturally responsive teaching (CRT) into classrooms and school districts nationwide in an effort to counteract the lack of educational support and to decrease tracking of students onto the school to prison pipeline.. This paper will strive to answer the question of how culturally responsive teaching can address the educational deficits of the Latino/a

Parental Involvement in School Systems Parental involvement in school systems is a vital part to the success of many different types of people’s success. Therefore the purpose of this research paper is to investigate the importance of parental involvement in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as the influence this has on the migrant students. Although, there are many conflicts that occur while trying to get the parents involved in the school systems.