{"id":9397,"date":"2018-11-23T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:49:44","slug":"report-reveals-racial-disparities-at-elite-texas-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9397","title":{"rendered":"Report Reveals Racial Disparities at Elite Texas Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report suggests funding disparities are contributing to Blacks and Latinos falling farther behind white students in bachelor\u2019s degree attainment. Photo: criene\/Twenty20.com<\/p><\/div>\n

by Mary Kuhlman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Public college students in Texas are being split into two separate and unequal tracks, according to new research released today.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce<\/a>\u00a0showed that white students were disproportionately represented at selective public colleges, comprising 64 percent of freshman enrollment, even though they represent only about half of the college-age population generally. And in Texas, report co-author Martin Van Der Werf explained, Latino students are severely underrepresented at these schools.<\/p>\n

\u201c45 out of every 100 college-age young adults are Latino in Texas,\u201d Van Der Werf said, \u201cbut only about 27 out of every 100 selective public college students in Texas are Latino.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black students account for 13 out of every 100 college-age young adults in Texas, but just six out of every 100 selective college freshman in Texas.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M University College Station, Texas State University, University of Houston, University of Texas Austin, and University of Texas Dallas are considered selective public colleges.<\/p>\n

Van Der Werf said admissions policies that rely heavily on standardized testing are problematic because they are not a reliable predictor of college graduation rates, but rather an indicator of the quality of K-12 schooling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhites do better on standardized tests. Latinos do second best and blacks, of the three groups, they do the worst,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so when you rely on testing as an entry measure, whites are always going to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report found Texas selective public colleges received $1,700 per student in 2015, about $800 more than open-access public colleges. And selective public colleges in Texas spend two times as much on instructional and academic support per student.<\/p>\n

Van Der Werf said how this money is spent matters, and not just to the students.<\/p>\n

\u201cStates are funding these colleges; all taxpayers are paying for them,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so we wanted to look at who is actually being served by these colleges because if everyone\u2019s paying for these colleges arguably they ought to be serving all members of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Der Werf added spending differences are directly connected to a wide variation in graduation rates. At elite public colleges, students have an 85 percent chance of graduating, compared to just 51 percent at an open-access public college. And he contends it\u2019s contributing to blacks and Latinos falling farther behind white students in bachelor\u2019s degree attainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mary Kuhlman AUSTIN, Texas \u2013\u00a0Public college students in Texas are being split into two separate and unequal tracks, according to new research released today. The\u00a0report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce\u00a0showed that white students were disproportionately represented at selective public colleges, comprising 64 percent of freshman enrollment, even though they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9398,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions\/9398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}