According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) statistics, _____ of Latino fourth graders are reading below basic levels due to not being able to read in Spanish or English.
What is 57%
100
This ethnicity has always had a significantly higher dropout rate percentage compared to any other ethnicity
What is Hispanics
100
The separation of two or more racial or ethnic groups
What is Segregation
100
A group who are perceived by others in the society as having a common set of physical charaecteristics
What is Race
100
In 2000, this state had 9,380 dropouts in high school.
What is Massachusetts
200
This percent of Latino fourth graders are reading at a proficient level
What is 14%
200
These two factors are well documented as the global trend in high school dropout.
What is minority status and family disruption
200
It is in this certain race's culture to typically not care about education. This is why they do not perform well.
What is Blacks
200
Defined as the way of life of the people in a certain geographic area, particularly their ideas, beliefs, values, patterns of thought, and symbols.
What is Culture
200
With the highest dropout rate, only 64% of this ethnic group, 18- 24-year-olds have completed high school.
What is Latinos
300
In 2005, there were approximately this many students attending U.S. schools whose native language or first language is not English.
What is 5.5 million
300
The Latino youth dropout rate was more than three times greater than this ethnic groups "white alone" dropout rate of 6.9 percent
What is Non-Hispanic
300
Blacks tend to come from this type of household
What is single parent homes
300
The fraction of youth that have not completed high school and are not enrolled in school at the interview date.
What is Status dropout rate
300
It may be that _________ increases high school dropout rates
What is Socioeconomic status
400
Of the students whose native or first language is not English, 80% speak this language
What is Spanish
400
In 1979, 8.5% of American children grew up speaking this language in their home.
What is English
400
These type of schools have been incorporated into the education system to benefit school black students.
What is Magnet Schools
400
The English dialect most common spoken among disadvantaged Blacks.
What is Ebonics
400
In 2005, almost 86% of adult whites had finished high school, whereas 81% percent of African Americans and only about ____ of Latinos finished
What is 59%
500
Due to language being a barrier, the decrease of this factor is another cause to why students are dropping out of high school
What is parental involvement
500
In 2000, about this amount of Hispanic young adults were high school dropouts, yielding a dropout rate if 21.1 percent for all Hispanic
What is 530,000
500
Although there is no longer a separate system of schools for Blacks and Caucasians, segregated classes in school still occurs because housing is still segregated within a town/city by this
What is income
500
Education that includes the perspectives and experiences of different ethnic groups
What is Multicultural Education
500
__________ and Latinos are less likely to finish high school than European Americans