Latino Administrators and McGraw-Hill Education Recommend Approaches to Help Drive Success for Students... -- NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --: In a new position paper, Building Bridges to the Future for Latino Students, experts from McGraw-Hill Education and the Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents (ALAS) examine why Latino students are unprepared for postsecondary education and careers. To address this issue, ALAS and McGraw-Hill Education's College & Career Readiness Group call for a much greater emphasis on personalized learning, college and career planning, and the utilization of digital learning tools.
Describing the country's staggering dropout rate – with one in five students dropping out of high school every day – as an economic drain that costs the United States more than $300 billion per year, the paper cites a massive disparity in graduation rates among Hispanics and their Asian and Caucasian peers.
