By Jillian Berman
New York City students of all races are increasingly attending
college, but there’s still a wide racial gap when it comes to enrolling
and persisting in college.
That’s according to a recent study
from researchers at New York University, which followed students who
started 9th grade in 2003 and 2008 through high school and beyond.
Roughly 48% of Latino students who started high school in 2003 enrolled
in college, the lowest share of any racial group, compared with 73% of
Asian students, the highest share of any racial group — a gap of about
25%. For students who entered high school in 2008 that gulf remained
about the same, though the share of students of both races entering
college increased.
“The city is doing everything they’re
supposed to do, they’re getting more students into college,” said
Kristin Black, a fellow at the Research Alliance for New York City
Schools and one of the authors of the study. “And yet we haven’t been
able to crack that equity problem.”
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Source: MarketWatch (via The Empire Report)
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