Incentives Offered to Raise College Graduation Rates

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/education/22college.html?ref=educationdepartment

In what amounts to a “Race to the Top” for higher education, the Obama administration is offering competitive grants and a new “tool kit” to help states increase their college completion rates. The campaign will include a new $20 million Comprehensive Grant Program for states that carry out plans intended to increase their graduation rates. The administration goal is for every American to get at least a year of post-high-school education, and for the United States’ college graduation percentage to rank first in the world by 2020. The United States lags behind several nations, with 42 percent of adults ages 25 to 34 earning college degrees. I personally think that this a joke. You cannot bribe universities with money to try and increase graduation rates. This is a student issue, not a university issue. The government should be putting money into programs that create better teachers to teach students. That is how you will increase graduation rates.