BRYAN: Here’s the real crisis: every year, over a million students who won’t graduate start college. Their failure is foreseeable; high school students with poor grades and low test scores rarely earn B.A.s. Instead of tempting marginal students with cheap credit, we should bluntly warn them that college is stacked against them. DARIA: What do we advise all these “marginal” high school students to do with their lives after graduation? BRYAN: We shouldn’t wait until senior year to advise them. Instead, we should steer academically uninclined kids toward vocational education when they’re 12 or
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