Success Boston followed a study released by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies that revealed just 16.9 percent of Black 2000 BPS high school graduates earned a college degree within seven years, and just 12 percent of Hispanics did.
The idea for CUE’s high school endeavor came from Dr. Tia McNair, assistant director for NCAN. After attending one of CUE’s Institutes for Equity and Critical Policy Analysis, which are funded by the Ford Foundation, McNair decided the tools she learned could apply to a high school setting.
The goal is to “ensure that the schools are using the programs effectively,” McNair says. “We are creating a social system by where practitioners can do the research themselves and find their own solutions on how to achieve equity effectively.”
