Schools and colleges can make attending college and succeeding at it a realizable goal for Latino students, but educators and policy makers need to do more to help them, according to a collaborative report from Iowa scholars and a national group of Hispanic educators.
Iowa State University's educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) program, has collaborated with the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education on a policy brief that provides recommendations for schools and colleges, the university announced last week.
According to the Iowa Department of Education, the state has seen a 109.3 percent increase in Latino enrollment from the 1999-2000 to the 2007-08 school years.
'We've got the (Latino) demography and we've got the people coming in, but we now need to make sure that this population is well-educated,' said Laura Rendon, chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
