IHEs Start Their Own K-12 Schools To Improve Minority Enrollment

Frustrated with students who come to college ill-prepared and an applicant pool that lacks the diversity of the nation's high schools, universities around the country are creating their own K-12 schools. All of them focus on steering disadvantaged kids toward the university gates. And educators say they are making headway. "The reason these are happening more is that the universities are trying to do something to increase the number of minority students that come on their campuses and can be successful," said Rob Baird, who funds school-university partnerships as vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Read more at:
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