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Lynch, Mamie; Engle, Jennifer – Education Trust, 2010
The United States' lack of purposefulness in providing high-quality education to all young Americans, regardless of the circumstances of their birth, is literally wasting the future of many young people, including members of the fastest growing group. Poised by 2050 to constitute nearly one-third of the workforce, Latinos currently are the least…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Young Adults
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This report focuses on the development of reading proficiency during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. The span of time between the ages of 15 and 24 is a critical period of development for young people. Once compulsory education is completed, individual decisions about post-secondary education, employment and other life choices…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Compulsory Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Santiago, Deborah; Soliz, Megan – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
In 2009, Excelencia in Education launched the Ensuring America's Future initiative to inform, organize, and engage leaders in a tactical plan to increase Latino college completion. This initiative included the release of a benchmarking guide for projections of degree attainment disaggregated by race/ethnicity that offered multiple metrics to track…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Associate Degrees