[r9etb]

Mr. Tolstoy's comment may or may not have been true for a feudal and agrarian Russia, but it is certainly not true here. You can look at incomes, illegitimacy rates, drug or alcohol abuse rates, number of teeth, or average Sunday church attendance. Pretty much any way you slice it, the folks who've gone to, and stayed in, school tend to come out ahead.

[Aquinasfan]

Pretty much any way you slice it, the folks who've gone to, and stayed in, school tend to come out ahead.

That's true, partly because credentials are a passport to employment, even though most business people recognize that schooling has little relationship to performance.

School-to-Work is intended to close the loop. No job without a diploma. Tracking from an early age. Universal chooling from birth through college. If you don't believe it, read this formerly private letter from Marc Tucker, President of the National Center on Education and the Economy, to Hilary Clinton, outlining the plan.