Hispanic Research

After tuesdays lecture, we were given a percentage rate of students with hispanic backgrounds that dropout of schools. Reasons for this is possibly because of low-income families, family responsibilities, or etc. Also, the attendance of hispanics in Detroit area is high, but the graduation rate is extremely low. I got to ask though, how is bringing in hispanic literature going to help students with hispanic backgrounds stay in school, let alone get better grades in an English Lit. class? I don't really see how lit. books get students better grades, from the statistics that I read, it seem that there is more outside influence that has students droping out, or not going to college. Maybe we should be focusing on how to counteract those outside influences and keeping students in schools, and actually graduate from school.