Why should anybody who is not Latino care about the education of Latino students? The nation as a whole will not be able to compete in a global marketplace unless we can educate these young people. How can we accept having huge swaths of our population simply marginalized, left out
-Patricia Gandara, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, in a PBS documentary on the Latino dropout crisis and efforts to increase graduation. One of the students featured in the film is a Tulsa teen (Source: http://bit.ly/19evebK).