PUNTO FINAL! CHICANOS AND HIGHER EDUCATION From: The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education | Date: July 30, 2001| Author: | Copyright The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Jul 30, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

¡PUNTO FINAL! CHICANOS AND HIGHER EDUCATION

According to John Roueche, every year more than one million of this country's young people...either drop out of school or graduate without competitive knowledge and skills. Approximately 91 percent are members of minority groups.

For the majority of the Latino students, the community college, with its open-door policy, does not serve as a bridge to the four-year college but is the only higher education received. This, in part, reflects the fact that most Latino students are not academically prepared to begin taking the academic curriculum ...

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