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Analysts Call For National Effort To Get More Students Through College (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

"The United States would economically benefit from a substantial increase in the share of its population with college degrees, but both higher-education institutions and the federal government are doing too little to ensure that college students graduate, several public-policy analysts argued here on Tuesday at a forum sponsored by the Center for American Progress," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "In a paper titled 'College for All?' Paul Osterman, a professor of human resources and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took on the question of whether there is enough demand for college graduates in the United States labor market to justify the expense involved in substantially increasing college access. Raising the specter of 'more college-educated taxi drivers,' Mr. Osterman said it cannot necessarily be taken as a given that producing more college graduates is a wise use of resources."

You can read the complete August 13, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education article on-line.

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