Education Week
As high school graduation rates improve in Chicago Public Schools, new research finds that college-going rates are also inching up.
About 14 percent of public school 9th graders in Chicago will earn a bachelor's degree within six years of graduating from high school, up from 8 percent in 2006. The national degree attainment rate is 18 percent, while it is 11 percent in New York and 4 percent in Baltimore...