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New York Times: College Racial Gap Continues to Grow
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On Friday, a mix of good and bad news came in a U.S. Census report on the nation’s 
college degree rates.
Richard Perez-Pena reports in The New York Times that the nation reached a milestone as of last March, with more than 30 percent of American adults holding at least a bachelor’s degree, and nearly 11 percent holding at least a master’s degree. That is up from 26.2 percent and 8.7 percent 10 years earlier.
With more women graduating from college than men in the last few years, the gap between men over age 25 and women over age 25 who hold bachelor’s degrees fell to less than 1 percent.
And Asians remain the best educated group of Americans, with 50.3 percent having bachelor’s degrees, and 19.5 percent holding graduate degrees.
But the news is less hopeful when it comes to blacks and Latinos, “who not only continue to trail far behind whites, the gap has also widened in the last decade.”
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