Facebook's college dropout co-founder leads effort that could help dispel anti-Latino myths (Opinion)
Facebook's college dropout co-founder leads effort that could help dispel anti-Latino myths (Opinion)
- March 8, 2014
- Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is quoted in the Washington Examiner March 8, 2014
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From the Washington Examiner:
According to New York Times' Ross Douthat, generally a super-thoughtful conservative,
although second-generation Hispanic immigrants make progress over first-generation
ones, stagnation sets in by the third. Nor is this trend likely to cure itself given
that rising unemployment and family breakdown are already hindering upward mobility
for America's underclass. But a new study by Jennifer Lee and others at the University
of California, Irvine, suggests that such fears are overblown. In a survey examining
the intergenerational mobility of various immigrant groups in Los Angeles, they found
that the educational attainment of Mexicans does stall after the third generation,
compared to Asian immigrants. “However,” they note, “it is far from clear that this
cross-sectional finding represents any kind of downward mobility or stagnation.”
For the full post, please visit http://washingtonexaminer.com/facebooks-college-dropout-co-founder-leads....
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