Item 477

Scope and Contents You heard about it before and still it's so hard to fathom, children leaving elementary school and junior high school unable to read. Latino children, many of whom speak in both English and Spanish, are in even greater danger of missing out on this most basic skill. Faced with that handicap, they often give-up on their education all together. The drop-out rate for Latinos in this country is above thirty percent, that's twice the rate for African Americans, and almost four times the rate for...