CHAPTER 5
Reaching Outward: Education at All Costs
Hasta que tengamos igualdad en la educación, no tendremos una sociedad igualitaria.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
—Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
One overarching commonality the successful Latino executives we interviewed have had is a college education, many at a graduate level. For most, this achievement was not a given. Several were the first in their families ever to go college. The odds were against their entering college, but even more so, against their graduating with a degree in hand.
Here’s what the odds would have been for them today; these odds were worse when the executives we interviewed began their journeys. If you begin with a ...
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