Chattanooga Times Free Press
Don’t be afraid to raise standards.  That was the advice given Tuesday by Dan Challener, president of Chattanooga’s Public Education Foundation, to a group of Washington, D.C., educators.

Seventy-three percent of Hamilton County's May, 2007 graduates enrolled in college during the fall of 2007.  This number is up from 70% in 2006 and 69% in 2005.  Of these students, the percentage enrolling in four-year colleges rose from 57% in 2006 to 62% in 2007.

Click the link to view the data in detail, including a map showing where graduates of the Class of 2007 went to college.

New York Times

In Chattanooga, Tenn., the schools have abolished their multitrack curriculum, which pointed only a fraction of students toward college. Every student is now on a college track. ... Those efforts, and others across the country, reflect a growing sense of urgency among educators that the primary goal of many large high schools serving low-income and urban populations — to move students toward graduation — is no longer enough. Now, educators say, even as they struggle to lift dismal high school graduation rates, they must also prepare the students for college, or some form of post-secondary school training, with the skills to succeed.

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Article includes a map showing 2006 graduates' college choices.

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More Hamilton County graduates are enrolling in college

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Partnership for College Access and Success hires college students to help high school students apply for college

Chattanooga Times Free Press
More Hamilton County graduates are enrolling in college

Focus
Lumina Foundation Focus magazine features Soddy Daisy High School college access program

Chattanooga Times Free Press
Seventy-one percent of last year’s Hamilton County Schools’ high school graduates pursued degrees at 122 colleges in 30 states, figures from the Public Education Foundation show.

Chattanoogan.com
Hamilton County is one of eight communities to receive a grant from the Lumina Foundation for increasing college access and student success.