Bob Herbert in the Times, "Roughly a third of all American high school students drop out.
Another third graduate but are not prepared for the next stage of life
— either productive work or some form of post-secondary education.

When
two-thirds of all teenagers old enough to graduate from high school are
incapable of mastering college-level work, the nation is doing
something awfully wrong."

One of my students sent me a link to Edwards on Colbert.  Alexandra Stanley has more on politicians making an ass of themselves on TV.

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