Large-scale social problems such as the Latino education crisis our nation faces require what the Stanford Social Innovation Review recently called "collective impact" http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/colle ctive_impact- the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem. While...

• Latinos now have the highest poverty rates in the nation
• 9 -year-olds growing up in low-income communities are already two- to three- grade levels behind their more affluent peers
• Despite college enrollment rising significantly among Hispanics, they continue to be the least educated major racial or ethnic group in terms of...

According to a recent report from the American Council on Education, Hispanics continue to lag behind other racial and ethnic groups in the United States on key measures of academic achievement. While Latinos made the largest gains on high school completion from 1988 to 2008, they remain at the bottom...