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June 8, 2003
Richard Fry, The
Pew Charitable Trusts
 Hispanic Youth
Dropping Out of U.S. Schools: Measuring the Challenge
High school dropout
rates are a key performance measure for the American education
system. This report by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that the
standard method for calculating the dropout rate leads to a
distorted picture of the status of Hispanic students in U.S.
schools.
In recent years an
influx of young immigrants, who left school before coming to the
United States, has swollen the ranks of those counted as Hispanic
dropouts. Those youth present long-term policy challenges in
language and employment training, but their level of school
completion does not reflect the quality of U.S. schools or of
Latino achievement in those schools. Rather their presence
reflects immigration and labor force trends.
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