The cost of higher education “failure factories”

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I comment on a recent AEI paper entitled “The Cost of Failure Factories in American Higher Education.”

While the author inclines to the view that we have a national problem because, on the whole, the graduation rate among American college students is rather low (around 50 percent), I think all it shows is that too many weak students are lured into college in the first place.