EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT AMONG LATINOS

Educational and Career Development among Latinos

Belinda Cullins and Pamela Haynie

Social & Cultural Diversity PC6511

Argosy University, Chicago

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to research about Hispanics' career and educational growth. The paper provides a wide synopsis of trends of the Latinos populace according to Census of 2010 and various latest resources. One of the main agenda of this paper will be on the extraordinary increase of population of Latinos. A socioeconomic study of features like income, language status, and educational attainment with respect to different trends of education are discussed in this paper as well. Three issues are discussed in this paper which has noted affects on Latinos' admittance in colleges: dropout rate, General Education Development (GED) credential, and low socioeconomic status. We will look at the benefits of receiving a General Education Development (GED) credential. We will explore the connection that educational development has to career development which leads to the labor force outcome. In conclusion we will explore multicultural counseling strategies to provide career counseling for this Hispanic/Latino population. One of the largest minorities group in the nation are Hispanics; they are the 15% of the population of America. According to the statistics of 2008, the population of the Hispanics, aged 20 and older, was about 29million. From this total population, the native born were 41% and foreign born were 59%. The 'Native born' are those people who are the citizens of the United States and as well as those who were not born in the US but one or both of parents are citizens of the United States of America. While the 'Foreign born' are those people who were not born in America and neither one of their parents are the citizen of the United States.

In American schools, the largest groups of minority are Hispanic students. In the elementary and secondary schooling systems; there are over 11 million Hispanics, and forming over 22% of the students of pre-K-12. Many educational challenges and calamity are faced by Hispanic students. In the early childhood education programs, less than one-half of the Hispanic students take part. A small number of Hispanic students become high school graduates; those get the opportunity to finish their high school education do not have satisfactorily preparation for college. The bachelor's degree is achieved by only 12% of the Hispanic adults, while graduation or professional degrees are achieved by only 3% of the Hispanics.

Even though every student can confront academic and developmental difficulties, yet Latino students are frequently confronted by added hindrance then their non-Latino, White fellows in the institutes or at their homes. Students of Latino origin are most liable to attend poor schools, give low performances in science, reading and mathematics, and are frequently disciplined and retained more than their White fellows (U.S. Bureau, 2003). The Hispanic students have higher expulsion and suspension rates than that of Whites, but lesser than Blacks. Hispanic students have higher high school dropout rates and lower high school completion rates than ...