The Long Road to College From the ‘At-Risk’ List in High School [KQED.org]
Floyd Maxey stares at the computer screen currently flickering with all the evidence of his high school career’s rocky start: a B in one class, D’s in three others — and an F. Sitting next to him in the computer lab, his mentor clicks into the page detailing the high school freshman’s current D in algebra. “How’s Ms. Ruiz’s class been going?” asks the mentor, 23-year-old Eleanor Kim. “Ms. Eleanor, I don’t like that class,” Floyd groans. “It’s hard up in there.” “You should be asking for...