April 20, 2007
It's a Family Affair
In an effort to improve retention rates, some 2-year colleges are reaching out for help from parents, spouses, and other kin
On paper, Mariela Castillo's family makes her likelier than other students to drop out of college. Her mother left school after the fifth grade, and her father has only a middle-school education. Of the several hundred people whom the student at Mountain View College counts as part of her family — a close-knit network of grandparents, aunts, uncles,
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