Today’s Immigrants the Most Educated in U.S. History

A new Pew Research Center analysis has found that recent immigrants to the United States are the most highly educated in history.   Educational attainment has risen over the past 50 years among U.S. adults overall. But data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 41 percent of immigrants arriving in  the past five years have at least a bachelor’s degree, and that recent immigrants remain more likely to have earned a degree than people born here. 

KJ

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