Programs Encourage Elementary Students To Set College Goals

Education Week (12/7, Adams) reported, "In the push to boost college-completion rates, high schools have often been the focus of college-readiness efforts, but now the reach is going even deeper into middle and elementary schools. Some educators feel it's too late in high school to start introducing the concepts of college, high expectations, and academic achievement." Thus, programs "are emerging to instill in young children the belief that they can go to college and promote the work ethic needed to make it."