How can our spending per student be in the top quarter of states, and our graduation rate in the bottom quarter? That's what I see in the maps below, created by www.higheredinfo.org with data and details here and here. There may be good reasons for these results –and there's certainly good reason to encourage public discussion of how both families and taxpayers can get a better return on their higher education investments.
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