Education World – Nicole Gorman
“The Pew Research Center has released some key findings about the 53.5 million K-12 students going back to school next month. Among these findings, the Pew Research Center found current K-12 students to be the most racially diverse bunch yet. Using data from the Census Bureau, the Center found that “half of Americans younger than 5 were minorities in 2013, compared with just 17% of those ages 85 or older” and that in some states, one-in-five public school kindergartners are Latino. Despite an increase in minority K-12 students, the Center found that most students attend schools with the same race being in the majority.”(more)