Belmont 112
The results were that twenty graduated from college, but 45 did not even finish high school.  In addition, twenty were convicted of crimes, and more than half of the girls had babies by the time they were eighteen years old.   John McWhorter calls this a failure due to not considering cultural factors.  Conservative commentator Larry Elder, saying that since the college-graduation rate for the group was not different from that of children with similar backgrounds but without pre-paid education, "The money was wasted." He said the reason for the failure was a problem of character.  Thirty years after the project started, a CBS article said that Weiss "believes you can overcome poverty with education, but admits his expectations were probably unrealistic."