<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6dc9e68e-c140-4b02-8cf9-18d562daf64e/2E69EC3B-6DC2-4F1B-BC7A-5D6B471D608A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.collegesummit.org/school-districts/superintendents-and-principals/college-enrollment-gap/" href="http://www.collegesummit.org/school-districts/superintendents-and-principals/college-enrollment-gap/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.collegesummit.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.collegesummit.org/school-districts/superintendents-and-principals/college-enrollment-gap/"><DIV>Leading school districts are beginning to track college enrollment and retention rates. The measure makes clear to students, parents and staff that the purpose of high school education and graduation is a successful life <EM>after</EM> high school. </DIV> <BR /><DIV> This marks a significant step forward in efforts to get more young people to college, particularly those from low-income communities. Up until this point, our education system has not systematically ensured that <U>all</U> young people who are college-ready <U>actually make it to</U> college. National data indicates that low-income students who got A’s on a standardized test went to college at the same rate as top-income students who got D’s on the same standardized test.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E69EC3B-6DC2-4F1B-BC7A-5D6B471D608A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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