Chicago Tribune
Freshmen at Chicago's public high schools today have a terrible statistic to live down. New research shows only 6 percent of their predecessors managed to earn four-year college degrees by their mid-20s.
The odds get worse for male black and Latino 9th graders. Only about 3 percent graduated from four-year colleges within six years, according to a study from the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research. The national average for all students: 64 percent...