In a recent NPR interview, Melinda Gates (wife of uberbillionaire Bill) says that we can reasonably expect 100 percent of high school students to become college students. When the NPR reporter asks her how many years it would take to reach that goal, Mrs. Gates says,
I think it is going to take us quite a while. I think that this is a long-term effort and I think it’s one that the [Bill and Melinda Gates] foundation is going to be at for a very long time. But it ought to be our goal as a nation. We shouldn’t let this number of students drop out. I think it’s a moral crisis that we’re failing students this way.
Is universal college attendance the natural consequence of a graduation rate of 100 percent?
HT: Joanne Jacobs
