The Hechinger Report – Michael Horn and Bob Moesta
“Students who enrolled in college because they felt it was expected of them ended up dropping out or transferring 74 percent of the time, our research revealed. More than half of the students we interviewed who chose college to get away from something else in their lives had left the institution they were attending without a degree at the time we interviewed them. In a world of low college tuition and low opportunity cost, that might be acceptable, but that is not today’s world.” (more)