Education Week
Only 41 percent of Chicago high school students who say they want to attend a four-year college actually manage to enroll the fall after graduation, a figure that drops to 30 percent among Latino students, a study has found.
The report, released last week by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, is the second in a series of dispatches from an ongoing study of the postsecondary experiences of the district’s students. The research project seeks to identify the stumbling blocks students encounter in trying to go to college...