{"id":13176,"date":"2025-06-11T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuestrostories.com\/?p=13176"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:50:03","slug":"estudio-historia-de-los-latinos-en-eeuu-apenas-se-aborda-en-libros-de-texto-de-preparatoria-del-pais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuestrostories.com\/es\/2025\/06\/estudio-historia-de-los-latinos-en-eeuu-apenas-se-aborda-en-libros-de-texto-de-preparatoria-del-pais\/","title":{"rendered":"Estudio: Historia de los latinos en EEUU apenas se aborda en libros de texto de preparatoria del pa\u00eds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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High school students don\u2019t get to learn much about U.S. Latino history, affecting most specifically the Latino youth who don\u2019t see a representation in their school textbooks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A new study<\/span><\/a> by the John Hopkins School of Education and UnidosUS, the largest non-profit advocating for Latino rights in the country, found that only 13 percent of fundamental Latino history content has been covered in depth. The rest was either not included in the textbooks or was often explained in less than five sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the most important is the acknowledgment by the educational system, writ large, that current Latino-focused content in history and social studies textbooks\u2014and by implication curricula\u2014fall far short of what should be required in a country where the proportion of the Hispanic population is expected to grow to 29 percent by 2050,\u201d the study states.<\/span><\/p>\n

The investigation analyzed ten seminal content areas across five metrics\u2014content, language, balance, authenticity, and universal questions\u2014in five U.S. history textbooks and one AP history book used in the following seven states:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n