Education Statistics

Due to the Civil Rights Movement and other work that has been done for minority groups, education statistics show improvement. While in the 1980's you see many more white people attending school then black by 39,422,000, almost 5 times as many of the black population enrolled. The hispanics only had 4,263,000 enrolled almost 10 times less than the amount of whites enrolled. Since then though, African American's enrollment rate has gone up 5.3 and the hispanic rate has actually gone down by 0.2. Since 1960 black high school graduates have qualdrupled, while Hispanics high school graduates have doubled. College graduates for black has sextupled while Hispanics college graduates have tripled. In terms of degrees, improvement shows however whites still dominate in the highest degrees of Professional, and Doctorate. In terms of eduacation for the younger population African Americans are not far behind in the readiness scale while Hispanics follow them not too much lower. The number of high school drop-outs has lowered, however whites have the least amount, blacks follow, then hispanics. In terms of receiving degrees. African Americans earning of these has raised while white's earnings slip a little. As there is much room to grow and continue spreading the ideas of desegregation will hopefully end the racism that is experienced however conditions have improved and the situations for African Americans and Hispanics seem optimistic and progressive.