Monday, January 28, 2019

SHATTERED DREAMS - Boston’s High School Valedictorians

"Why so many of Boston’s high school valedictorians struggle to succeed" PBS NewsHour 1/23/2019

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  High school valedictorians are the best in their class academically.  But a new report finds that the top graduates of Boston’s public high schools are encountering great obstacles to attaining educational and economic milestones.  John Yang talks to the Boston Globe's Malcolm Gay, one of the story's reporters, about how former stars are struggling and why success takes more than scholarship money.

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