It’s not just about getting more kids to graduate from high school. It’s also about the caliber of the work they can do when they graduate. That’s true for most students. It’s especially true when it comes to closing the achievement gap between white students and minority students.
Of specific urgency in a city such as Milwaukee, with large numbers of minority students, were strong indications that even when minority students are very successful in high school, they are not graduating ready to do the same kind of rigorous college work that white students are.