Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Why Don

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Why Don:


Why Don

From the Times, a story about Washington State and the low rate of college attendance. 

More than half of Seattle adults 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, making it one of the most well-schooled cities in the nation.

So it may come as a surprise that only about one in four public-school students from Washington's high-school class of 2009 will finish college by 2015, according to a Seattle Times analysis of recent trends.

While the percentage of high-school graduates who went to college jumped by nine points in the United States