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Still Separate and Unequal? Latina/o and Immigrant Youth and the Quest for Educational Equality

Still Separate and Unequal? Latina/o and Immigrant Youth and the Quest for Educational Equality. Lisa M. Martinez Dept. of Sociology and Criminology University of Denver Lisa.Martinez@du.edu. Still Separate and Unequal?. Educational gains Remaining challenges Implications

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Still Separate and Unequal? Latina/o and Immigrant Youth and the Quest for Educational Equality

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  1. Still Separate and Unequal? Latina/o and Immigrant Youth and the Quest for Educational Equality Lisa M. Martinez Dept. of Sociology and Criminology University of Denver Lisa.Martinez@du.edu

  2. Still Separate and Unequal? • Educational gains • Remaining challenges • Implications • Reproduction of inequalities • Limited access and social mobility

  3. Key Court Cases

  4. Gains in Education • Increase in high school graduation rates among 18-24 year old Latina/os

  5. Gains in Education • Increase in college enrollment rates

  6. Gains in Education • Growing share of college degrees

  7. Gains in Education • Decline in proportion of high school dropouts

  8. End of De Jure Segregation • Latina/o and immigrant youth have made significant educational gains • High school graduation rates • College enrollment • Share of college degrees • Decline in dropout rates

  9. Remaining Challenges • Achievement gap among Latina/o youth

  10. Remaining Challenges • Achievement gap among immigrant youth

  11. Remaining Challenges • Gaps in enrollment and access

  12. Remaining Challenges • Sociological factors: poverty

  13. Remaining Challenges • Sociological factors: segregation

  14. Beginning of De Facto Segregation • Segregated neighborhoods, segregated schools • Reproduction of social inequalities • Access issues for immigrant youth, suppressed social mobility for Latina/os

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