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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (55456)	11/16/2008 4:31:32 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224649

The number of high school dropouts has increased in recent yrs. Wonder if illegal immigrants are included in the statistics? Students are not required to prove citizenship status when they enroll in US secondary education. Another reason is dysfunctional families - so many teens lack the motivation provided by responsible and determined parents. >How did the U.S. become the world's largest economy? A key part of the answer is education. Some 85% of adult Americans have at least a high school degree today, up from just 25% in 1940. Similarly, 28% have a college degree, a fivefold gain over this period. Today's U.S. workforce is the most educated in the world. But now, for the first time ever, America's educational gains are poised to stall because of growing demographic trends. If these trends continue, the share of the U.S. workforce with high school and college degrees may not only fail to keep rising over the next 15 years but could actually decline slightly, warns a report released on Nov. 9<