Latino High School Graduation: Defying the Odds

by Toni Falbo and Harriett D. Romo

Book Overview

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"