US Latino Students’ High School Dropout Rate Is 50 Percent Lower Than in 2000

*The good news is that something is working, the not so good news is that no one can say, for sure, what brought about the success – too many theories, too many people wanting credit. VL

By Olivia Demarinis, LatinPost

The dropout rate amongst Hispanic high schoolers is the lowest it has been in the past three decades, but reasons behind this positive turnaround are debatable.

The current dropout rate, roughly 14 percent, is half of what it was in 2000 among Latinos. This demographic is also one of the largest groups taking the GED test in 2013, about a fourth of all test-takers.

Explanations for these education markers vary widely between policies from the Obama and Bush administrations, to the tougher economic landscape, to larger Latino student populations being at the forefront of educators’ concerns.

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