How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

So we are left with a conundrum: Why are so many American students dropping out of college just as a college degree has become so valuable and just as young people in the rest of the world have begun to graduate in such remarkable numbers?

high college enrollment but second lowest graduation rte in OECD, at the same time that advantage of college degree is higher than ever before. what's going on? those who will inevitably fail are still trying to go to college because of the value? seems unlikely. more fundamental problem with education.