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Are students who quit college bored or lazy? Not necessarily, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Mar 10, 2010, 09:16

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has released a Public Policy Agenda Report, With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them, the Myths and Realities About Why Students Fail to Complete College. They submit that students who leave college without finishing are not necessary bored or lazy. They may not have completely understood what they were doing when they chose a school, or what they are supposed to be doing with the education they are receiving there:

According to the U.S. Department of Education, only 20 percent of young people who begin their higher education at two-year institutions graduate within three years.1 There is a similar pattern in four-year institutions, where about 4 in 10 students receive a degree within six years.2 And these bleak statistics on national college completion rates are averages. In some institutions, the numbers are even gloomier.

This is clearly a personal disappointment for the students and their families, but increasingly, experts and leaders see it as a threat to U.S. international competitiveness and a phenomenon that perpetuates economic insecurity and inequality…With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them, the Myths and Realities About Why Students Fail to Complete College (.pdf download) >>