July 20, 2009

How to Help Struggling Students in High School? Send Them to College

Getting an Early Taste of College 1

Sandy Huffaker for The Chronicle

Daisy D. Neri at San Diego State U., where she will start this fall with 16 hours of credit. Ms. Neri, recently graduated in June as valedictorian of San Diego's School of Media, Visual and Performing Arts, one of 201 schools participating in the Early College High School Initiative.

By Ashley C. Killough

A group of 23 students walked across the stage at El Paso Community College in May to get their associate degrees.

They had just finished their junior year of high school.

The students attend Mission Early College High School, in El Paso, which challenges minority and low-income youths to earn one to two years of college credits while in high-school. The program is part of a nationwide effort to bridge the gap between secondary and postsecondary institutions, encouraging more

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