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The College Dropout Crisis

Thursday, May 23, 2019
The New York Times

American higher education has a dropout problem. About one in three students who enroll in college never earn a degree. But a promising solution is staring us in the face: Schools with similar students often have very different graduation rates. This suggests that the problem isn’t the students — it’s the schools. 

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