Hispanic students consistently perform below some of their peers in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In both fourth and eighth grades, Hispanic students lag behind white peers in reading (fourth grade: 205 vs. 231; eighth grade: 247 vs. 272) and mathematics (fourth grade: 227 vs. 248; eighth grade: 265 vs. 291).
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National Policy Organizations Launch Intensive Efforts to Address the Nation's Low College Completion Rates
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Jun 16, 2009 (All day) Leading national policy organizations announced today new efforts to identify why so many young Americans drop out of college and to propose new policies and practices necessary to help low-income, African American, and Hispanic students complete their educations. These efforts are funded by more than $6.4 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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NCES, The Condition of Education, 2008, Indicators 12, 13


