June 30, 2000

New Efforts at Community Colleges Focus on Underachieving Teens

By ERIK LORDS

Listless students take college classes while still in high school

Throughout much of her time at a public high school in Vergennes, Vt., Christina Aiken daydreamed, doodled, and ignored some of her teachers. She graduated this month with a 2.7 grade-point average.

Last fall, however, she enrolled early in a college English course taught by a professor from the Community College of Vermont at Middlebury. The students had to read 70 pages per week, write

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