Educators need to focus on how to raise academic achievement for the most successful Latinos in school as well as those who perform poorly, suggests a report.
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Written by Patricia G谩ndara, a professor of education at the University of California, Davis, and published by the Princeton, N.J.-based Educational Testing Service, the report says researchers need to 鈥渂ring up the top,鈥� rather than only attempting to 鈥渞aise up the bottom.鈥� It notes that the top fifth of Latino students in 2002 had an SAT verbal score of 598, compared with a score of 663 for the top fifth of white students.
