Most public school students aren't prepared for college work, data show

With top test scores and high graduation rates, Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook sees almost 90 percent of its graduates go off to college.

But it's another story in a small community just south of the Wisconsin border, where only about half of Harvard High School graduates enrolled in college in recent years, well below the state average. At a few dozen schools in Chicago and downstate, even smaller percentages of students moved on to higher education...