Re: 2000 Education by Race

["John Lawhead" <twoflightsup@hotmail.com>]

> Migration means that the people in the data may not have even been
> children in the U.S., and thus their educational attainment does not
> reflect the performance of the U.S. system of education.  Hence, one
> cannot really use the data below to say much of anything.

The schools in Latin American countries aren't so grossly inferior that 
teenage immigrants can't claim the right to get a diploma on time with the 
proper support, including bilingual ed.   That there are kids with 
interrupted schooling is a different issue and in my experience it's a 
relatively small number.  Our students from Ecuador come to Brooklyn with 
math and science knowledge ahead of the rest of school.  They end up getting 
hammered in 11th grade by the English Regents exam, especially the boys.   
According to the Harvard/Urban Institute study New York state has the lowest 
rate of Latinos getting diplomas in the country.  In this case, I think the 
number means something.

John

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