October 15, 2004

Grading the Higher-Education Report Card

In September the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education issued "Measuring Up 2004," a state-by-state "report card" that showed that the nation has made little progress over the past decade in increasing the number of students who enter and graduate from college. The center, an independent research group based in California that previously issued reports for 2000 and 2002, graded each state on how much it had improved from 1992 to 2002 in five key areas: student preparation,

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