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For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw

New York Times

February 8, 2010

At North Carolina's early-college schools, the goal is to keep at-risk students in school by eliminating the divide between high school and college. "We don't want the kids who will do well if you drop them in Timbuktu," said Lakisha Rice, the principal. "We want the ones who need our kind of small setting." Results have been impressive. Not all students at North Carolina's early-college high schools earn two full years of college credit before they graduate - but few drop out.

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