How to order The Chronicle's special report on School & College

This special report looks at how well (or not so well) America is preparing its young people to make the most of a college education. Among the articles:

• Into The Fray: Colleges played little part during a generation of school reform. That's no longer an option.

• The 'P-16' Pathfinders: States are trying to coordinate all of education, from preschool through college. Amid the political and bureaucratic frustrations are some quiet successes.

• A Perception Gap: Two companion Chronicle surveys suggest that, particularly in writing, college freshmen are not as prepared as their high-school teachers believe.

• Can't Beat the Price: How do you overcome your graduates' financial obstacles to college? Pay their full tuition. Portraits of an experiment in Colorado.

• Foundations of Learning: What 11 philanthropies are doing to ease the transition from school to college.

• Mind the Gap: If states don't build better links between their school and college systems, students will continue to fall into the chasm between the two, write Michael W. Kirst and Andrea Venezia.

• Healthy Starts: We must harmonize what high schools expect of their graduates with what college expect of their freshmen, says Chester E. Finn Jr.

• Ready or Not: The College Board once had standards that were uniform, predictable, and elevating, says Diane Ravitch. Now state and federal policy makers have taken over the job of assessment, and, in her assessment, they're underperforming.

• Think Ahead: Liberal education is not a job for colleges alone. It should start earlier, says Stanley N. Katz.

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