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Santiago, D. – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
Excelencia in Education accelerates higher education success for Latino students by providing data-driven analysis of the educational status of Latinos, and by promoting educational policies and institutional practices that support their academic achievement. This document provides grand total undergraduate enrollment and total Hispanic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Santiago, Deborah; Soliz, Megan – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
In 2009, Excelencia in Education launched the Ensuring America's Future initiative to inform, organize, and engage leaders in a tactical plan to increase Latino college completion. This initiative included the release of a benchmarking guide for projections of degree attainment disaggregated by race/ethnicity that offered multiple metrics to track…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Associate Degrees
Santiago, Deborah A. – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2008
Too often, conversations about Latinos in education are based on ignorance. Put simply, ignorance is "not knowing." As often as not, people in these conversations assume they know more than they actually do--based on individual experiences or cliches shared by others--rather than on data. Excelencia in Education addressed this by providing…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Academic Achievement, Law Enforcement, Education Work Relationship