The College Ready Blog is designed to promote conversation about college readiness through news, analysis and opinion.

Start with 100 high school freshmen, only 12 are left standing ten years later to receive their four-year, college diploma.  The $400 billion question: is this the best we can do?

We will explore this important question as it relates to college readiness, high school reform, and closing the achievement gap.

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Athens Learning Group is a non-profit consulting firm that partners with school systems, non-profits, governments and foundations to increase the competitiveness of secondary students in higher education.

With less than 13% of high school freshmen completing a four-year college degree, we need to revolutionize our approach to college readiness. Getting into college is the easy part. Can your students compete when they get there?
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The Reason Write program is featured in the October 2006 issue of Educational Leadership.

Read "For the Sake of Argument: Re-thinking High School Literacy" online (subscription required).

Also, see Mike Schmoker's new Educational Leadership article on Argumentative Literacy where he highlights the program at View Park Prep in South Los Angeles.
 

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