Posts Tagged ‘Stan Jones’
Public Radio Program Explores Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College
by John O. Harney
September 8, 2011
More people are going to college than ever before. But in the U.S., about half of the people who start don't finish, leaving about 37 million Americans with some college credit but no degrees, according to "Some College, No Degree," a new documentary from American Radioworks.
The first in a three-part series exploring how higher education ...
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College Attainment: Throwing a Complete Game
by Stan Jones and David Soo
July 26, 2010
The U.S. once had the world’s highest percentage of adults with a college degree, but has now dropped to 10th, according to the OECD. In an attempt to reverse this slide, a number of policymakers and foundations have sought to make increased degree attainment a national priority. President Obama has articulated the goal that America ...
Read MoreTags: American Community Survey, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, community colleges, Complete College America, David Soo, degree attainment, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Lumina Foundation, Stan Jones, The New England Journal of Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education | No Comments
