Go to Pell!
Three years ago, President Obama boldly proclaimed that the United States would have the highest percentage of citizens with college degrees in the world by the year 2020. To get there, we need to address a few things. One, we need to reduce the college dropout rate (with more than one in three failing to graduate college within six years of entering). Second, we need to get more kids in the pipeline, increasing those entering and thus increasing those successfully completely. And third, we need to make sure that students have the funding to actually seek and complete a college degree, a challenge proving more difficult in our struggling economy.
The federal Pell grant program was established to provide "need-based grants to low-income undergraduate and