College completion rate among men has stalled, new report finds

College completion rate among men has stalled, new report finds

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By Daniel de Vise

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 19, 2010; 11:41 PM

A new report on minority achievement in higher education sounds an alarm about a stark reversal of fortune for an unlikely minority group: men.

Younger men are significantly less likely to have completed college than older men, according to an analysis of federal data by the American Council on Education, a nonprofit group that represents college leaders. The educational stagnation of men is hindering the progress of the nation as a whole and largely offsetting gains by women, the group says.

The 24th edition of the Minorities in Higher Education report provides the latest evidence of academic decline among men, particularly in college. Women outnumber men nearly 3-to-2 in the college population, largely because men are more likely to drop out of high school and to forgo college for manual labor or the military.

Many generations of Americans exceeded the academic attainment of their parents. That

Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers

by Kevin Sieff

A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War -- a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups seeking to play down slavery's role as a cause of the conflict.