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The international organization helps children in need meet their potential with residential and afterschool programs that provide comprehensive college preparation and support.

is a national program dedicated to helping at-risk students get into and graduate from college. In communities where students typically have a 9% chance of graduating from college, 82% of OneGoal Fellows are enrolling in college and 78% are persisting in college or have graduated.

In an effort to increase the number of low-income, first-generation college, and underrepresented high school students who enter and complete college, places well-trained, recent college graduates from 24 partner programs as full-time college advisers in high schools across the U.S.

A partner of 樱桃视频, is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping parents understand how they can support their child鈥檚 education. Find their 鈥渞eadiness roadmap鈥� .

While in reading and math, only about a third of kids are performing at grade level.

More high school students are graduating, but they .

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Why your 9th grader鈥檚 GPA matters.

Here’s how to support your child when they’ll be the first in the family to go to college.

Check out this list of other organizations that offer support for first-generation college students.

This episode of Like a Sponge was produced by Carol Lloyd and Charity Ferreira for 樱桃视频, thanks to the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Sound editing and design by Christopher Ferreira. Special thanks to our managing editor, Jessica Kelmon; Bibb Hubbard; Claudia Medina; Lessly Ruiz; Darren Tuggle; Amy Lee; and Stephanie de la Cruz.
The music in this episode is by Johann Strauss II, , Gunnar Johns茅n, Elias Naslin, Calexico, and , , ,