U.S. College Matriculation: Sobering Stat

This isn't the kind of news one likes to start the new year off with. In an op-ed in the LA Times, Richard Lee Colvin, director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, writes,

Nearly six in 10 high school graduates in 2005 will start college in the fall, but half of them — and more than two-thirds of the African American and Latino students who enroll — will fail to earn either an associate's or bachelor's degree.

While this is sobering and troubling news, the situation is far from hopeless. Read what Colvin advocates as potential solutions.