"The country's poorest students have just an 11 percent chance of graduating college within six years. That's not the American Dream. In The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America, Richard Whitmire argues that improving those odds could be "the most effective anti-poverty program ever launched in this country." Breakthrough takes readers to the places across the country where that change is already happening -- K-12 schools using data-smart college counseling; elite colleges accepting once-disparaged community college transfers by the thousands; nonprofits sending college counselors into cash-strapped high schools. Their work is dramatically improving college graduation for the most disadvantaged students.