Chicago Tonight
My experience attending the International Baccalaureate program in a Chicago public high school seems like a million years ago. In actuality, it was from 1993-1997. Back then, Lincoln Park High School was the only IB program in Chicago. Now there are several schools that offer IB, and more to come, if Mayor Rahm Emanuel gets his way.
As Elizabeth Brackett reports, a recent University of Chicago study found that students in IB programs are 40 percent more likely to go to college, and STAY in college, than non-IB CPS students...