February 10, 2006

The Lessons of 'Early Colleges'

By MARY B. MARCY

Last summer a National Governors Association survey of high-school students yielded some surprising results: More than a third of the students surveyed said that high school had been "easy," and two-thirds said that they would work harder if they felt more challenged in their classes.

That information comes as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has focused national attention on the idea of "early college," by which high-school students take college courses at postsecondary

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