Dropout Factories

by Patrick Appel

Leonhardt recommends The Washington Monthly's new college rankings system. In a related article, Ben Miller and Phuong Ly report on colleges with the worst graduation rates:

These colleges make up 15 percent of the total and disproportionatelyserve working-class and minority students. They are akin to the 15percent of high schools Barack Obama and other would-be reformers havedubbed "dropout factories" for having scandalously low graduation rates— on average about 50 percent...