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What if a college education just isn't for everyone?

USA Today

March 16, 2010

Long before President Obama vowed last year that America will "have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world" by 2020, the premium placed on going to college was firmly embedded in the American psyche. And yet, there's an undercurrent of concern about a group of students - sometimes called "the forgotten half," a phrase coined 22 years ago by social scientists studying at-risk young people - who, for whatever reason, do not think college is for them.

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