Top students from low- and moderate-income families can apply for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholars Program, which provides five years of after-school and summer enrichment to prepare for college success.
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Parents, students design new Alpha high school
Parents, teachers, students, community members and education experts worked together for two years to design Alpha Public Schools’ new charter high school in East San Jose.
The Goal: Raising AP pass rates for Latinos, blacks
Taking Advanced Placement courses — and passing the end-of course exams — helps students get into selective colleges, earn credits and prepare to succeed. Latino, black, low-income and first-generation students are less likely to earn AP credits — but a Dallas initiative is changing that.
Rich grad, poor grad
The college graduation gap is widening: People raised in high-income families are more than eight times more likely to complete a bachelor’s degree.