In an increasingly interconnected, rapidly globalizing, internet-enabled, knowledge-based economy this is a problem, why exactly?

Dropping out of high school has its costs around the globe, but nowhere steeper than in the United States. Adults who don’t finish high school in the U.S. earn 65 percent of what people who have high school degrees make, according to a new report comparing industrialized nations. No other country had such a severe income gap. ... An adult with a university degree in the U.S. earns, on average, 72 percent more than someone with a high school degree. That’s a much bigger difference than in most countries.

As a college educator, I consider this to be the best education news I have heard in some time if for no other reason than that it says that it pays to get a higher education and it doesn't pay not to.

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