| November 20, 2008 State of Education: Successful higher education programs
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(NECN) - The Boston Foundation and NECN continue the series: State of Education: Making the grade in Massachusetts. Over the course of this year we have been examining what's working and what isn't in public schools, from preschool to college. The focus of this program is on higher education.
RD Sahl and Paul Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation host the second installment of the series. Joining RD and Paul to discuss the issues is Joseph Aoun the president of Northeaster University, Irvin Scott, the academic superintendent for the Boston Public Schools, and Susan Dalelio, director of the Posse Foundation in Boston which builds multicultural teams, and trains them for top universities.
A study released by Northeastern University finds that a shockingly small number of students graduating from Boston Public Schools went on to finish college. The study tracked all 1,800 students who graduated from Boston public high schools in the year 2000 and went on to college. By 2007, just 35.5 percent had graduated from a two- or four-year college. Fifty-nine percent coming out of elite exam schools like Boston Latin School and enrolling in college graduated from college by 2007, just 24 percent coming from all other city high schools.
The panel discusses the problem as it stands now, and how they city will try and fix the problem. In this segment, successful higher education programs are discussed such as Northeastern's Co-Op program, which connects
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