Only 10 percent of Latino dropouts gets a GED
by Gustavo Martínez on May 20 2010 Posted in Social justice in education
Latinos remain at the bottom of educational achievement both locally and nationally. This worsens when one finds out that the alarming dropout rate comes along with low GED attainment.
Barely 1 in 10 Latino dropouts have a General Educational Development (GED) credential, according to a report the Pew Hispanic Center released last week.
The relatively low level of GED credentialing among Hispanic high school dropouts is especially notable because Hispanics have a much higher high school dropout rate than do Blacks or Whites. Some 41 percent of Hispanics age 20 and older in the United States do not have a regular high school diploma, versus 23 percent of comparably aged Blacks and 14 percent of Whites.
Recently-arrived Latino immigrants don't fare as well as native-born Latinos in this matter; only 5 percent of those dropouts who recently immigrated to the United States have a GED compared to 21 percent of their U.S.-born counterparts.
Some 52 percent of foreign-born Latino adults are high school dropouts, compared with 25 percent the native born. And among Hispanic dropouts, some 2
