Education, 'the great equalizer':

Education, ‘the great equalizer’

08/21/2012 By Hector Luis Alamo, Jr. 4 Comments

Latinos are getting their learn on.

From the Pew Hispanic Center:

“For the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5% share of all college enrollments. Hispanics are the largest minority group on the nation’s college campuses, a milestone first achieved last year (Fry, 2011). But as their growth among all college-age students continues to outpace other groups, Hispanics are now, for the first time, the largest minority group among the nation’s four-year college and university students. And for the first time, Hispanics made up one-quarter (25.2%) of 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled in two-year colleges.”

Not only that, but the Pew Hispanic Center also found that Latinos now make up one out of every four children in the K-12 public school system.

More than the group’s sheer population growth, the rising number of young Latinos receiving a good education augurs future success for the Latino community.

“Education,” said Horace Mann, “is the great equalizer of the conditions of men.” Monumental thinkers from