College and career readiness

make or break

Chicago

11 hours ago

Too many freshmen show up to high school unprepared. Could onboarding help?

Chicago Public Schools, known nationwide for its focus on freshman year, has started this emphasis earlier to ease what can be a difficult transition into high school.

College Readiness

Colorado

August 15, 2019

SAT scores are slightly down in Colorado. Find your school’s 2019 results

More than half of Colorado’s high schools recorded lower SAT scores last spring when compared with the past year, according to data released Thursday.

College and career readiness

Chicago

August 6, 2019

New Illinois law aims to increase high schoolers seeking federal aid for post-grad plans

A new state law will require Illinois high school seniors to complete an application for federal student aid in order to graduate.

getting to graduation

New York

July 15, 2019

What should it take to graduate in New York? A new committee will make recommendations

One of the major questions that the commission could study cuts at the heart of what it means to graduate in New York: How much does passing the Regents.

Keeping up

Colorado

July 15, 2019

More than a third of Colorado high school graduates need extra help to do college work

The number of Colorado high school graduates needing developmental education has barely budged in the past two decades.

mentors matter

National

July 2, 2019

This California high school aims to guide all of its first-generation students into professional careers. It’s getting close.

Eastside’s focus on its alumni and its generous budget has enabled the private school — which serves students from low-income families — to succeed where others stumble.

Q & A

New York

July 2, 2019

Low-income students don’t always apply for financial aid for college. How this Queens school is trying to change that.

For four years, Karabelas has built a college and career planning team that holds events and reaches out to students.

STEM scholars

Newark

Updated June 28, 2019

Three Newark students selected to attend NJIT on full scholarships

Three Newark students are receiving new, full-ride scholarships to one of the state's premier universities — and expectations for what they'll accomplish there are high.

Obstacles to a degree

Chicago

June 21, 2019

Could hunger be one reason Chicago students drop out of college?

Such hardships around food and housing may help explain why so many graduates of Chicago Public Schools still struggle with getting through college.

New hope for an old school?

Detroit

June 20, 2019

Auto company investment brings promise — and yet another change — to a Detroit high school

The history of Detroit's Southeastern High School has mirrored the rise — and long, hard fall — of its near east side neighborhood. It is now on the cusp of change.

Advocacy shift

Tennessee

June 18, 2019

Tennessee education group SCORE will expand focus beyond K-12

The influential public education advocacy organization joins forces with another nonprofit group in Tennessee.

College Access

Newark

June 13, 2019

A Newark charter school celebrates its first graduates — from college

Like a growing number of high schools, People's Prep has expanded its mission from simply graduating students to ensuring that they attend and complete college.

Head Start

Colorado

June 5, 2019

How these Denver students earned credits for a college Spanish minor while in high school

The program has been so successful that it’s expanding to several other Denver high schools this fall.

nudge to nowhere

National

May 31, 2019

The College Board tried a simple, cheap, research-backed way to push low-income kids into better colleges. It didn’t work.

“Our interventions led to no change in the likelihood or sector of college enrollment,” the new paper, largely written by in-house researchers at the College Board, says.

The college push

Chicago

May 14, 2019

To get more students to and through college, Chicago is pushing this approach

Alan Quintana’s last year of high school at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy looked a lot more like the second year of college.

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