NCLR's frightening report on Latino school achievement places blame in wrong place
Sarah Dolan of the National Council of La Raza has released a frightening report called "Missing Out: Latino Students in America's Schools" (nclr.org/content/publications/detail/57016):
Latino children constitute one-fifth of the under-five population and are the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority; as such, they represent the very future of the American workforce. However, Latino students continue to miss out on critical learning opportunities and perform at lower levels than their peers. We need to make investments in their learning now to ensure their future success as students and as productive members of the U.S. economy.
The beginning of the report itself says, "Despite the large numbers of Latinos living in the U.S. and the extent to which they value education..." In other words, they're misleading people from the start and they aren't willing to be honest about the fact that a good part of the problem is cultural. They also take pains to stress that 91% of those discussed are citizens, without pointing out that many are the children of illegal aliens. Having an honest discussion about the incredibly obvious huge downsides of massive immigration is obviously not in the NCLR's best interest.
Discussing just how much the report indicates how much trouble the U.S. is in is left as an exercise.