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Dropout Rates Turning US Colleges Into 'Failure Factories'

Students' failure to make it to the finish line is dragging down the economy

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 9, 2009 6:17 AM CDT

(Newser) – The failure of America's colleges to turn more freshmen into graduates is doing huge amounts of damage to the economy, David Leonhardt writes in the New York Times. Only half of those enrolled in college emerge with a degree, the worst rate of any developed...   Read full story »

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