March 10, 2006

Colorado Debates How to Send More At-Risk Students to College

By BEN GOSE

When one public high school offered to pay students' full tuition to a local community college, they signed up in droves

It was the first assembly of the school year at Abraham Lincoln High School, and the principal had a question. How many of you, he asked, want to go to college?

A few hands shot up.

Then the principal gave a slide show that showed how much more money a college graduate could earn over a lifetime than someone who didn't go to college. He concluded by

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