Education Secretary Ponders How to Keep Hispanics in College

The educational system has to be improved so that Hispanics and other minorities have a better chance of graduating high school and entering and completing college. - - Donna Poisl

by Danny Yadron

WASHINGTON - Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that he wanted his department to help cut dropout rates and boost college enrollment for Hispanics.

The push for scholastic equality comes as President Barack Obama tries to improve the nation's educational system so that by 2020 the U.S. leads the world with its percentage of college graduates, as Duncan reiterated at a gathering of Hispanic college administrators. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that a quarter of the country's children younger than 5 are Hispanic.
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