• Facing the dropout epidemic

  • What happens when America’s largest and youngest minority also has the nation’s highest dropout rates? It’s simple math, experts say: a national crisis.

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Voices: The Latino dropout rate

Why is the Latino dropout rate so high? Experts cite various reasons, but young Hispanics voice their own here.

Economic gains hinge on cutting Hispanic dropout rate

The high cost of the Hispanic dropout crisis

  • Find out how much money your city could gain by halving its Hispanic dropout rate.

In Chicago - 2 schools, 2 strategies

  • In the nation's third-largest school district, educators are searching for ways to shepherd more of their Hispanic students toward graduation day. That challenge leads schools to divergent, sometimes conflicting approaches.

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Interactive: Experience the language barrier

  • Could you succeed in a classroom where you didn’t speak the native language? Listen to this lesson and take a quiz to see if you’d thrive or dive.

5 ways to stem the dropout epidemic

  • Educators across the country are finding inventive, often surprising ways to curb dropout rates among Latinos. Read more

Future Latino leaders

  • One-third of Hispanics expect the first Latino president to be elected in the next 20 years. Could one of these young up-and-comers be that candidate?