Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published February 17, 2012.
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The Obama Administration has highlighted college education as a key to economic recovery and to diminishing inequality among Americans, but access to education remains a challenge for many students. A recent report by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education called it a “leadership and policy vacuum” and highlighted the problem in Washington state. That vacuum, the report claims, is responsible for the fact that many of the state’s high school students—sixty out of every one hundred—don’t start college on time. FSRN’s Eilís O’neill reports.
