Why Obama’s 2020 graduation goal isn’t attainable
President Obama has set this as a goal by 2020: That all adult Americans would have committed to at least one year of higher education or career training and America would have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. Setting aside the issue of whether you think his K-12 reforms will be any help toward that goal (any even casual reader of this blog knows that I don’t), there is a numbers game working against the realization of his goal. And his newly released proposed education budget for 2012 isn’t going to help him get there.
