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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED262127 AUTHOR: Martinez, Michael E.
TITLE: Educational Opportunity for Underrepresented Minority
Students in California: Comparisons with Other States.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1985
NOTE: 80 p.
ABSTRACT: This report compares California with other states
in how the problem of low achievement by minority students
is being confronted. The severity of the achievement gap is
assessed, as well as the steps being taken to close the gap.
The topics considered are: (1) the changing demographic
profile of racial and ethnic minorities in California;
graduation rates; correlates of the achievement gap such as
unemployment, juvenile delinquency, and criminality; and the
moral and practical needs for change; (2) educational
disadvantages of ethnic and racial minority students
(education level of parents of SAT examinees; family income;
English deficiency; subjects studied in high school;
proportion of examinees in a college preparatory program;
and the deleterious effects of tracking); (3) minority
representation and scoring on college entrance examinations
(test scores by race and ethnicity; effects of increased
minority representation among examinees; encouraging
minority students to take college entrance tests); (4) the
establishment of equitable college admissions requirements,
with emphasis on California; (5) data from community
colleges, four year colleges, graduate schools, and
professional schools in California on minority
representation and success; and (6) selected efforts to
increase minority representation in California and other
states. On many measures of progress toward equal
representation among achievers, California was one of the
best among comparable states. Black Californians are fairly
well represented in colleges, but Hispanics are severely
underrepresented at all levels of postsecondary education.
It is noted that the numbers of minority students aspiring
to higher education are increasing and that college
admission test scores are on the rise for minority groups.
Further, many groups, universities, and testing
organizations are attempting to improve the situation. (CG)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Achievement; Access-to-Education;
Affirmative-Action; American-Indians; Asian-Americans;
Blacks-; Enrollment-; Equal-Education; Hispanic-Americans;
Limited-English-Speaking; Low-Income-Groups; Parent
Background; Postsecondary-Education; Secondary-Education;
Students-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Admission; *College-Entrance
Examinations; *Demography-; *Educational-Attainment;
*Minority-Groups; *Underachievement-
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