Friday, March 03, 2006

Report: Hispanics lagging in education - Yahoo! News

Report: Hispanics lagging in education - Yahoo! News: "Getting the children of Spanish-speaking immigrants to finish high school and go to college is crucial to the economy as much of the nation's workforce edges toward retirement, says a report released Wednesday by a prominent government advisory board.

'Hispanics are coming of age in an aging society,' says Marta Tienda, a Princeton University professor who headed a panel that studied the impact of the nation's 41 million Hispanics. 'Education is the bottom line.' The study was released by the non-profit National Research Council."

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