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Heritage Profiles

By Chienyi Cheri Hung — June 01, 2012 1 min read
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The nation’s Hispanic students are an incredibly diverse population, representing a mix of socioeconomic, language and cultural backgrounds. To highlight that diversity, Diplomas Count 2012 profiled individual students from the six largest Hispanic heritage groups represented in U.S. schools. Each of the profiles, featured below, is paired with a statistical portrait for that population group.

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One Student, Two Cultures
Roger Sanchez is an Afro-Latino student at Bell Multicultural High School in Columbia Heights, Washington D.C. In this video, he explains how he bridges the gap between two ethnic cultures at his school.
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One Student, Two Cultures
Roger Sanchez’s ‘Afro-Latino’ heritage spurred questions from his new U.S. classmates.
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Chienyi Cheri Hung
Chienyi Cheri Hung was the Online Creative Director for edweek.org and teachermagazine.org.
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