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Young Latino Students Don?t See Themselves in Books

Noted: The Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, which compiles statistics about the race of authors and characters in children?s books published each year, found that in 2011, just over 3 percent of the 3,400 books reviewed were written by or about Latinos, a proportion that has not changed much in a decade.