TULARE,Calif. — Here in California’s heavily Latino agricultural heart, Adrian Lopez has worked on farms and in construction. Now he’s doing something few people like him from around here ever finish: He’s going to college. Overshadowed by attention to the challenges faced by nonwhite high school graduates in cities, or low-income black,Hispanic and native […]The post Economics, culture and distance conspire to preserve rural nonwhites from higher educations appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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