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May 24, 2005
Table 1:
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What Assimilation?: Education Levels
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of Mexican-Americans By Generation |
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(1989-1990) |
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Mexican-Americans |
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First |
Second |
Third |
Fourth |
All Non-Mexican |
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Generation |
Generation |
Generation |
Generation |
Americans |
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No High School Degree (%) |
69.9 |
51.5 |
33.0 |
41.0 |
23.5 |
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High School Degree (%) |
24.7 |
39.2 |
58.5 |
49.4 |
30.4 |
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Post High School Degree |
5.4 |
9.3 |
8.5 |
9.6 |
45.1 |
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Source: Rodolfo O. De la Garza, Angelo Falcon,
P. Chris Garcia, "Mexican Immigrants, Mexican
Americans, and American Political Culture," in
Barry Edmonston and Jeffrey S. Passell (eds.)
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Immigration and Ethnicity: The Integration of
America's Newest Arrivals
(Washington: Urban Institute |
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Press, 1994.) Cited by Samuel Huntington in
Foreign Policy: |
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Table2:
Dropout Rates By Recency of Immigration, 2000
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Immigration
Status: |
Hispanic |
Non-Hispanic
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Hispanic as
Multiple of
Non-Hispanic |
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Born Outside the
U.S. |
44.2% |
7.4% |
6.0 |
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First Generation |
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14.6 |
4.6 |
3.2 |
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Second Generation |
15.9 |
8.2 |
1.9 |
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Source: U.S.
Department of Education, National Center For
Education Statistics, "Status
and Trends in the
Education of Hispanics,”
April 2003. Supplemental Table 3.3b. |
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Edwin S. Rubenstein (email
him) is President of
ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis. |
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