U.S. Education Attainment Rises

"Americans across major racial and ethnic groups became better educated over the past decade, though significant gaps remain in the rates at which blacks and Hispanics earn a high school diploma or college degree."  This is the conclusion of a Brookings Institution census analysis reported in an Education Week (May 19, 2010) article, "Education Attainment Rises for Americans Across Race, Ethnicity."

"The percentage of both Hispanic and black adults, age 25 and older, who hold at least a high school diploma climbed by about 8 percentage points between 2000 and 2008....  For Hispanics it reached 61 percent, and for African-Americans, 81 percent.  But those numbers were still well below the 90 percent of white adults with at least that credential.

While these increases are welcome, there is an underlying concern pointed out in the Brookings report:  as minority groups, particularly Hispanics, become a much larger share of the U.S. population, "... the nation's overall education attainment levels could slip, given how much ground Latinos still need to make up."

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