To Raise Educational Levels, Focus on Income-Based Inequality, Report Urges

Without more students from lower-income families earning bachelor's degrees, the United States won't meet the Obama administration's college-completion goal, says a new report from the Pell Institute. If all Americans attained bachelor's degree by age 24 at the same rate as do individuals from the top half of the income distribution, America would now have the highest share of degree recipients in the world.  Read a summary from the Chronicle of Higher Education and get a link to the full report in the link below.