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Article: Reforms needed to boost graduation rates, educators tell Congress.(Washington Update)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
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- August 12, 2004
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America's college graduation rates need a shot in the arm, according to educators who recently discussed the renewal of the Higher Education Act with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Without reforms, the educators agreed, the country's future is in danger.
"Today, (only) 63 percent of students who begin college as full-time freshman receive their bachelor's degree after six years," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., at a mid-July hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Education and the Workforce, which is shepherding the reauthorization of HEA. Miller, who is the ranking Democrat on the committee, was quoting from "A Matter of Degrees: ...