Results from the 2007 Latino Health Survey conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center are available in a new report, Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.

The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new fact sheet, Hispanic Women in the United States, 2007, containing statistics from the Current Population Survey and American Community Survey.

Widening gaps in educational attainment threaten economic mobility for the poor, according to a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project (Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog).

See also: New York Times article,  Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America (Economic Mobility Project report)

More high school students are taking and scoring well on Advanced Placement tests, but underserved groups are not gaining at the same rate, according to the 4th Annual AP Report to the Nation from the College Board.

See also: Chronicle of Higher Education article (Note: The Chronicle article is available online to subscribers. PRI affiliates can read the Chronicle in the PRI Library or request online access from library@pop.psu.edu.)

Most Hispanic adults born to immigrants in the US report they are fluent in English, but only a small minority of their parents say they speak English well, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System (PDF) is a new research brief from the American Sociological Association’s series on institutional aspects of race, racism, and ace relations.

The Growing Color Divide in US Infant Mortality, a new report from the Population Reference Bureau by Rogelia Saenz, professor of sociology at Texas A&M University, examines racial disparities in health beginning at birth.

White students were less segregated from minority students in 2005-2006 than they were in 1993-1994, but over the same period black and Hispanic students became slightly more isolated from white students, according to an analysis of the Education Department’s Common Core of Data (CCD) Public School Universe Survey by the Pew Hispanic Center. The center’s report attributes the seemingly contradictory trend to Latinos comprising a larger proportion, and whites a smaller proportion, of the student population.

Citation: Rick Fry (2007, August). The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools. Pew Hispanic Center. (Available online)

Foreign-born Latino workers moved out of the low end of wage distribution into the middle between 1995 and 2005, according to an analysis of CPS data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Citation: Rakesh Kochhar (2007, August). 1995–2005: Foreign-Born Latinos Make Progress on Wages. Pew Hispanic Center. (Available online)

Collectively, more Asian American college and university students are experiencing obstacles to academic success in US higher education than in the past, according to a new UCLA report. The report, Beyond Myths: The Growth and Diversity of Asian American College Freshmen, 1971–2005, is available for order from the Higher Education Research Institute.

There is some discussion about the data used in the report on the Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog.