Posted on 08/12/2013 12:13:52 PM PDT by Larry381
If you’re graduating from college this year, count yourself lucky.
Just 56 percent of college students complete four-year degrees within six years, according to a 2011 Harvard Graduate School of Education study. Among the 18 developed countries in the OECD, the U.S. was dead last for the percentage of students who completed college once they started it ― even behind Slovakia.
College dropouts tend to be male, and give reasons such as cost, not feeling prepared, and not being able to juggle family, school and jobs, according to the Harvard study. An American Institutes for Research report last year estimated that college dropouts cost the nation $4.5 billion in lost earnings and taxes.
A number of four-year public universities, funded in part by taxpayer dollars, have graduation rates that are just as bad ― or worse ― as their for-profit counterparts.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefiscaltimes.com ...
oh I did.....I followed it on FR and Radio. Not TV.
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