Laura Kraus talks about the roles principals can fill in promoting access and aspiration, and Kathy Cameron describes school-university partnerships to promote access.

Further reading on the theme of college access:

What They Didn’t Learn In High School (Catalyst Ohio)

Now in college, recent graduates wish their schools had taught effective study, and time-management skills. Teachers should have pushed them harder to achieve, they say. Two such students are:

• Jerome Jemison, 2004 graduate, Cleveland Metropolitan School District. What he didn’t learn: How to manage time effectively, How to be responsible for his own learning.
• Bliss Davis, 2006 graduate, Cleveland Metropolitan School District. What she didn’t learn: Strong math skills, How to absorb reading material deeply over a long period of time versus skimming reading assignments and cramming for exams.

“Better Than Their Numbers”

By Scott J. Cech, Education Week, Sept. 17, 2008, p. 23. Handpicking students who lack top test scores and grades but are leaders among their peers, College Summit helps them craft eye-catching college essays and then dispatches them back to their high schools to help foster a “college-going culture.”

College Access: from the Inside Out

Report presented by Oasis/Community IMPACT, February 2006. Excerpt from the Executive Summary: “There have been many reports written about college access, but what makes this report different is that it is not written from the perspective of a high-profile university professor, rather, it is written from the perspective of US, the students, who are going through the challenges of getting adequate support for our college dreams. We want to tell the story from our own perspective because that is the best way this story can be told, from the inside out. While we obviously do not hold any kind of political seats in our community that will enable us to make policies regarding education in our community, we are the ones going to school and we know what we need to make us successful citizens in future.”