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‘Hispanic Baby Boom’ Likely To Have Positive, Long-term Effects in Educational Attainment

by Karen Branch-Brioso , October 24, 2008

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On average, we can expect it’s going to have some favorable outcomes.”

Another report released by the Pew Hispanic Center in August showed that 10 million of the nation’s 48 million students in public schools are Hispanic – and 84 percent of them were born in the United States. The report showed that the younger the Hispanic student is, the likelier he or she was born in the United States.

Among Hispanic kindergarteners in public schools in 2006, 93 percent were born in the United States, while 86 percent of first- through eighth-graders were U.S.-born and just 77 percent of Hispanic high school students were born in the United States.

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