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A college education also increases youth marriageability increasing the chances for youth to marry a legal citizen and obtain legal status through familial relationship. [18] The majority of undocumented children are growing up with legal access to public education but face legal barriers to higher education (Abrogate, 2006).
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Socioeconomic status can play a significant role in an individual's enrollment, performance, and completion of their college degree and pursuit of higher education. Children with parents in the top 1% of the income distribution are 77 times more likely to attend an elite college or university than children with parents in the bottom 20% of the ...
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
People moving to America have varying degrees of education: While advanced degrees are represented at a higher rate among immigrants than native-born citizens in the US, there is also a higher ...
In the study, gay men were significantly less likely to fail to graduate from high school compared to completely heterosexual men (3.94% vs. 9.91%) and were more likely to complete college (43.86% vs. 26.46%). [60] Additionally, about 52% of gay men age 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the national average.
Those cheap CDs and DVDs you bought on sale this spring and summer cost Borders bookstores dearly, but kids' books and coffee hold future profits. Borders Group Inc. (BGP) posted a loss of $45.6 ...
Non-Mexicans arriving on the border are overwhelmingly Central American nationals. The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under ...