Latinos are far behind their white peers in most academic areas. Although many look towards the high school dropout rate is a cause for this discrepancy in academic achievement, I believe it starts before schooling ever begins. On average, Latinos households have higher rates of poverty and lower average annual household income. However, this is a grouping of all Latinos and we see that not all Latinos are alike. For example, Cubans Americans tend to be among the “well off” Latinos with average household incomes above $40,000 while Mexican and Puerto Rican origin households tend to be less well off, with average household incomes below that of even African-Americans (Bean 2001). Furthermore, as is the focus of second-generation Latinos, we
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According to the theory of capital deficiency, Latinos (as well as blacks) have less access to various forms of capital, which include financial, human, social, and cultural, than whites do. Therefore, this translates directly into lower levels of academic preparation and poorer performance in college (Charles 2008). For example, under the human capital theory, parents invest in their children in the same way that entrepreneurs invest in a company, seeking to maximize their ultimate payoff. Although different cultures view investment in children as important the way and to the degree can withstand best in children varies based on their …show more content…
Second-generation youth with parents who are either citizens or legal United States residents are been more likely to respond to the survey than undocumented immigrants, in fear of exposing their parents. Should this be valid, this could overstate the positive transition to adulthood for second-generation Latino youth and could be significantly worse. Another limitation of this paper is that many studies do not account for gender differences between Latinos and education. Therefore, it left me questioning whether there is a difference between males and females and how big is this difference. Additionally, the data I found could not to distinguish the part of the countries of origin they came. For example, respondents Mexico, but we do not know which region in Mexico they immigrated. Despite these limitations, I believe this data depicts a fare picture of the disparities in education for
According to the theory of capital deficiency, Latinos (as well as blacks) have less access to various forms of capital, which include financial, human, social, and cultural, than whites do. Therefore, this translates directly into lower levels of academic preparation and poorer performance in college (Charles 2008). For example, under the human capital theory, parents invest in their children in the same way that entrepreneurs invest in a company, seeking to maximize their ultimate payoff. Although different cultures view investment in children as important the way and to the degree can withstand best in children varies based on their …show more content…
Second-generation youth with parents who are either citizens or legal United States residents are been more likely to respond to the survey than undocumented immigrants, in fear of exposing their parents. Should this be valid, this could overstate the positive transition to adulthood for second-generation Latino youth and could be significantly worse. Another limitation of this paper is that many studies do not account for gender differences between Latinos and education. Therefore, it left me questioning whether there is a difference between males and females and how big is this difference. Additionally, the data I found could not to distinguish the part of the countries of origin they came. For example, respondents Mexico, but we do not know which region in Mexico they immigrated. Despite these limitations, I believe this data depicts a fare picture of the disparities in education for