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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| "Early college" programs report success with urban students who might not have gone to college. |
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By Bill Cohen - May 18, 2009 |
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Six of Ohio's nine "early college" high schools are reporting a lot of success in graduating students with some college credits already on their resumes. The schools are located in big cities, and they target students who might not be expected to perform scholastically well enough to get into college. Lisa Duty works with the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, which supports these kinds of innovative schools.
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Lisa Duty (:18) 
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| That's a tipping point, Duty says, that usually points to success in college. She says -- even though the students in this program often start out with disadvantages --- coming from poor backgrounds, and reading two years below grade level -- they succeed in the college-bound curriculum because of high expectations, plus a lot of mentoring and tutoring |
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