At-Risk Students Apply To Be Part Of A New Community College Experiment

For these students, college is not an assumption but an aspiration, a potential salvation from the poverty. All have applied for the first class ever admitted to the City University of New York’s new two-year college, set to open next month. Unknown to them, these students have applied to be test subjects in a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/education/edlife/the-new-community-college-cunys-multimillion-dollar-experiment-in-education.html?partner=rss&emc=rss