Most Black and Latino Students Unprepared for College, Study Says - DNAinfo.com New York: Students from the city's black and Latino neighborhoods are much less likely to be prepared for college than their counterparts in white areas, a new study found.
In Mott Haven, for example, just 8 percent of students graduated high school ready for college last year, while in TriBeCa, 80 percent of high school graduates were prepared for higher education, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University found in a report released this week.
The findings alarmed parents and education advocates — and even the study's authors.
"I didn't expect the data to be as bad as it was," said Norm Fruchter, one of the co-authors of the study.
"Given that the Bloomberg administration has focused its reforms so specifically on trying to reduce the achievement gap and make sure demography is not destiny," Fruchter continued, "I was surprised at the extent to which demography still is destiny when it comes to preparedness for college."
