Hispanic Students
The N'CES summary related to Hispanic students shows that they face social and educational situations similar to African Americans. Important among the findings, just as \\iih African American students, parental involvement for Hispanic students is no less likely than for White students.
Hispanic children are less likely to be enrolled in preprimary education. Gaps in reading, mathematics, and science achievement appear at age 9, and persist through age 17. although some of these gaps have narrowed over time. Hispanic students are no less likely than White students to have their parents involved in their schooling, although in some cases Hispanic students are more likely to face a disorderly school environment than their White peers. Both Hispanic and White high school graduates are following a more rigorous curriculum than they were a decade ago. Hispanic graduates are less likely, however, to have taken advanced science and mathematics courses in high school than their White counterparts, but are just as likely to have taken foreign languages. Even though they have lower educational aspirations than Whites. Hispanic students are about as likely as Whites to make the immediate transition from high school to college. However, educational anainmem levels are lower among Hispanic than White young adults. For Hispanics. educational attainment is positively associated with employment and earnings, although earnings and employment rates are lower for Hispanics than for Whites with ihe same amount of education. .Among adults. Hispanics have lower literacy levels than Whites, both in general and ai similar levels of educational attainment (Educational Progress of Hispanic Students. 1995. p.22).
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