期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：168-182
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：Hispanic (including all Latinos and people born in, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central, and South America) populations have risen through the United States. This study explores the educational challenges that face the United States and the future of educating this continually growing population. Programs in place to assist the Hispanic youth are discussed in this study with comments related to high impact learning strategies. The percentage of educational attainment compared among the multiple ethnic backgrounds shows a lower portion of higher educational attainment in the Hispanic population. Focusing on education, many challenges are labeled throughout the educational mainstream of society that relate to needed educational training and less discriminatory practices in order to address the problems faced with the growing population of Hispanics that must be served. This study focuses on those specific challenges and provides potential solutions that have been mentioned and suggested for public educational consideration. These educational solutions may also be applied to adult education as well as extension education in the United States with regards and utilization of high impact learning models
