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It turns out the one-on-one tutoring really can do the trick for young people who would be expected to fail.

"They" is a program called College Access Now that operates in three Seattle high schools. It boasts an unheard-of success rate working with groups of kids who, on paper anyway, are among the most at risk of fading off after high school and never going on to college.

Through last year, 252 kids from low-income families in which nobody has gone to college had gone through this program. And 252 were accepted to college. That’s a perfect record, 100 percent, among a demographic group that typically goes to college at less than half that rate.

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Danny Westneat

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