Perhaps the most disturbing data in this "Trends & Indicators" issue of CONNECTION concerns the "education pipeline." For every 100 public high school ninth-graders nationally, only 69 will graduate from high school four years later, only 39 will enter college the fall after they graduate, only 27 will return to their college for sophomore year and only 18 of those original 100 will earn associate degrees within three years of enrolling in college or bachelor's degrees within six years of enrolling.

The New England states perform a little better than the nation as a whole but not well enough to meet the challenges posed by today's global knowledge economy and complex civic and political ...

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