There’s a great study that was released this week by the University of California, Berkley and covered by the New York Times, Hispanic Immigrants’ Children Fall Behind Peer Early, Study Finds.
What researchers discovered is that while Hispanic children are born healthy and on par with other American children, by age 2 they fall behind – and stay behind academically. What makes this so? Poverty is, of course, a factor. Another is that Hispanic mothers tend to have less formal schooling.
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