Education

Hispanics, High School Dropouts and the GED.

Just one-in-ten Hispanic high school drop-outs has a General Educational Development (GED) credential, widely regarded as the best “second chance” pathway to college, vocational training and military service for adults who do not graduate high school. By contrast, two-in-ten black high school drop-outs and three-in-ten white high school drop-outs has a GED, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly-available educational attainment data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey.

Limited Play Impacts Behavior.

While David Cameron criticizes the marketing industry for selling teens the concept that happiness lies through excessive consumerism, it is worth taking a closer look at what we are actually allowing to happen to our kids, which may be having a more serious effect on their development, which, in turn, has important repercussions for marketers and product developers.

Porto Rico 1924.

Porto Rico (Puerto Rico) according to the the December 1924 issue of National Geographic was “The Gates of Riches” and the “Colorful Porto Rico”.

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