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...Washington Post ran a front-page story on a new census report that said 45% of the nation's children under the age of five are racial or ethnic minorities, and that the percentage is increasing primarily because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly. If you read those facts carefully, you'd probably find them interesting, but not necessarily sufficient to draw any sweeping conclusions about the demographic and cultural future of the country...
...course, wildly wrong and not just because he rounds 45% up to "half" or conflates all racial and ethnic minorities with Hispanics. The Hispanic population is growing more rapidly than the white population, but nothing like what he fears. According to a projection released last year by the Census bureau, in 2030 the Hispanic population of the U.S. will be about 20.1%. Fifty years from now, the majority of Americans will still be white and 24.4% will be Hispanic...
Sources: AP; Chicago Tribune; Commonwealth Fund; U.S. Census Bureau; Lancet (2); AP; Oregon Department of Human Services...
...only catching up to other institutions of higher education.” Catching up, indeed. Last week, the Harvard College Admissions Office reported a record high for Native American admissions: 1.4 percent of admitted students, close to the nationwide Native American population, 1.5 percent, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. According to a recent newsletter from the Harvard University Native American Native American Program (HUNAP), there are 56 Native American students currently enrolled.Much of the recent success can be attributed to the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), said Roger Banks, Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) director and senior admissions officer...
...pregnancy and military service, that were often applied to students who were later reclassified as dropouts by outside auditors. The Federal Government has been similarly deceptive, producing rosy graduation-rate estimates--usually between 85% and 90%--by relying only on a couple of questions buried deep within the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. The survey asks whether respondents have a diploma or GED. Critics say the census count severely underreports dropout numbers, in part because it doesn't include transients or prisoners, populations with a high proportion of dropouts...