Document Number: 5627The Rise of the Second Generation: Changing Patterns in Hispanic Population Growth - Growing rapidly since 1970, first-generation Hispanics — those born outside the United States — comprised 40% of the overall Hispanic population in 2000. The authors predict that this share will fall, as second-generation Hispanics — those born in the United States with at least one foreign-born parent — become the largest share of the U.S. Hispanic population by 2020. This demographic shift will present the U.S. education system with new challenges, as schools are faced with educating native-born students being raised by immigrant parents. (Roberto Suro and Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Hispanic Center, October 2003)...
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