Latino High School Graduation: Defying the Odds

by Toni Falbo and Harriett D. Romo

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While high school drop-out rates have steadily declined among white and African American students over the 1970s and 1980s a constant 35 percent of Latino students continued to quit school before graduation. In this pioneering work, Harriett Romo and Toni Falbo reveal how a group of at-risk Latino students defied the odds and earned a high school diploma.

Romo and Falbo tracked the progress of 100 students in Austin, Texas, from 1989 to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292724950

ISBN13:9780292724952

Release Date:March 1996

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:342 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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