Colleges work to keep the dropouts in

Close to half of the students who enter U.S. colleges never graduate. Private foundations and educational leaders around the country have since launched new initiatives designed to stanch dropout rates. Vermont’s leaders have followed suit, affirming support for a state “compact” that aims to raise the state’s share of college degree holders from 42 percent to 60 percent in the next decade. All of this comes in the face of national college completion rates that have held fairly steady for years but that languish below international standards.

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