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University Of California Affirmative Action
1,159 words... oking. Black and Hispanic admissions are down significantly at the two top campuses in the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. Black admittance to Berkeley and UCLA is down 57 % and 43 % respectively. Hispanic admittance is down 40 % and 33 %. The drop was far less dramatic for the whole college, which includes six more campuses. The total drop was 17. 6 % for blacks and 6. 9 % for Hispanics (Krauthammer 23). This shows the large number of non-qualified minority students that were e...
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Does Not Completing High School Increase Criminal Arrests
1,570 wordsDoes not completing high school increase criminal arrests? The connection between dropout rate in high schools and crime statistics in America has been well established by numerous statistical surveys, which indicate that the probability for the school dropout to get involved in crime equals to approximately 90 %. The reason is obvious; students academic inadequacy derives out of his mental inability to operate with abstract categories, which is the main principle of studying process. The dropou...
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Antisocial Behavior Risk Factor
1,031 wordsDropping Out Introduction Never before has the influence of education been greater than it is at present to determine Americas economic and occupational success because people who have suffered the most during the last two decades are the ones who are without high school diplomas. In comparison to people who are educated, the dropout individuals have had to suffer absolute declines in their income and this has resulted in their economic marginalization. It is not just the economic factor that is...
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Ninth Grade Community Based
1,241 wordsThe Development of a Prevention Dropout for Secondary Student in an Urban High School Setting According to Noguera and Dimon (2003), the rate of dropout in American urban high schools may be the biggest but least known problem today. Noguera and Dimon estimated that at a great amount of schools 50 % and even more of the students who start their ninth grade leave it without graduation. [ 3 ]. Many researchers who work on this problem agree that there are many factors which contribute to the rate ...
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Silicon Valley Asian Pacific
1,138 wordsCupertino (Homestead High) &# 038; Baldwin Park (Baldwin Hills) For our community profile presentation, we investigated Homestead High School in Cupertino, and Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Hills, California. Cupertino is located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, and roughly 10 miles north of San Jose, in the Northern California Bay Area. Cupertino is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has experienced an income boom among working professionals in the last decade and a half, d...
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Dropout Rate Back Home
589 wordsThe Dropout Rate in Americas Colleges In 1992, the dropout rate in Americas colleges was almost twenty-four percent! Therefore meaning that nearly one out of every five students that head off to college in the fall, drop out by the first semester. In addition, about one out of every three remaining students do not return for their second year. This statistic may seem outrageous, however, it is true. Furthermore, a study has shown that if the dropout rate continues at its current pace, it will re...
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Hispanic Americans Puerto Ricans
767 wordsHispanics Hispanic Americans HISPANIC AMERICANS Hispanics are a group of Americans who share common cultural origins and language. However, Hispanic Americans come from diverse nations and backgrounds with their own history, religion, economy and political experience. Today, nearly 30 million Americans are identified as Hispanics in the fifty states. The largest group are the Mexican Americans, who account for 64 % of the Hispanic Americans. Then come the Central and South America and the Caribb...
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