By Fernando Torres |Staff Writer| The Inland Empire (IE) community faces a high school dropout rate of over 50 percent, in which nearly 80 percent of the school age population is African American and Latino “These numbers are pretty devastating,” said CSUSB Assistant Professor Dr. Louie Rodriguez. The Participatory Research Advocating for Excellence in Schools Inland Empire (PRAXIS) tries to raise awareness on the matter. PRAXIS IE was a research project lead by Rodriguez, who also served as principal investigator, and conducted interviews, gathered data from surveys, and observations to try and understand why minorities are failing high school. On April 19 Rodriguez and his … [Read more...] about CSUSB faculty stresses importance of school