Colleges more diverse, but racial gaps persist | Washington Examiner: While U.S. colleges have grown more racially diverse in recent years, minority students — especially Hispanics — still lag behind on key measures of academic progress, a new report says.
Those findings were released Wednesday in a biannual report card on minority educational attainment by the American Council on Education, with financial backing from the GE Foundation.
Overall, postsecondary educational achievement has flat-lined, meaning today's young adults are no better educated than the baby-boomer generation, the report concludes.
'Equality in education for all Americans remains a somewhat elusive goal that we must strive to reach,' said ACE president Molly Corbett Broad.
The report pays special attention to the nation's estimated 47 million Hispanics, including what it describes as an overlooked population in education policy — Hispanic immigrant adults.
