Friday, April 22, 2011

Total
Race Total HS Grads Total College Grads

W: 17 15
AA: 2 0
A: 5 4
H: 15 9
NA: 0 0
PI: 0 0
O: 0 0

Among all races, most of the participants' parents graduated from high school. During college is where a shift is seen between races. The White category has the most amount of college graduates out of all the races, with the Hispanic group coming in next. Almost all of the Asian parents that graduated from high school went on to college. Though, no one in the African American group graduated from college. Whites were the racial group that makes the most money, so college might have been more financially reasonable for them. The parents of whites were more likely to go to college than parents belonging to other races, so their children were expected to go to college as well. Minorities are more likely to come from lower income families and in lower communities higher education may not be valued or thought to be financially practical. Some groups may have decided to get their college degrees once they came to the States and saw all the opportunity that higher education provided.

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