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Hazelton: From 5% Hispanic to 25% In 10 Years
Hazleton One Community Center was part of research that was presented at a conference in Chicago.
Megan Hopkins, assistant professor of education at Penn State University’s main campus in State College, and Andrea Kolb, education coordinator at the community center, along with Bob Curry, founding president of Hazleton Integration Project (HIP), and Elaine Curry, HIP program director, presented the poster outlining the research.
The research examined the area’s dramatic increase in immigrant population and how educators adapted to the increase in multicultural students. Hopkins and Kolb chose to study Hazleton because it has had such great change in recent years.
According to the U.S. Census, Hispanics made up 5 percent of Hazleton’s population in 2000. By 2010, that number increased to 37 percent.
All groups that received grants from the American Educational Research Association were invited to present at the conference in late April. Hopkins and Kolb were joined by representatives of the communities they researched.
While there, they were able to compare notes with other presenters.
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