Chicago’s charter high schools are helping underdog kids get to college, according to a study by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, writes Maureen Kelleher on Education Post. As a whole, Chicago’s charter high schools take in eighth-graders who score lower on tests but have higher attendance than average for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students. . . . Charters make them work harder to pass to the next grade. They provide more challenging instruction, st