Research Idea: "Still work to be done in education funding"

Still work to be done in education funding, by Jose L. Cruz, Cal State Fullerton
It has been nearly six years since President Barack Obama publicly prioritized college  completion as a means to improve economic competition and more than eight years since Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education called on policymakers to "address the needs of higher education in order to maintain social mobility and a high standard of living."
...Persistently low degree completion rates, particularly among low-income students and students of color, continue to limit social mobility, and in the process, threaten our nation's competitiveness.
By age 24, for example, young people from the bottom income quartile are seven times less likely to have a bachelor's degree than those families in the top quartile, and we rank near the bottom in the developed world in educational attainment of  our young people when compared against that of their parents...

See this article in its entirety in the November 5 edition of the Orange County Register, in the CAL STATE FULLERTON section of the paper.