President Obama has set 2020 as a goal for the country to regain the status it held a generation ago, when it had the highest percentage of university graduates in the world, according to US Education Secretary Arne Duncan. The United States currently ranks ninth in the world in terms of university graduates per population ratio.
“I’m convinced we have to educate our way to a better economy. We have to again lead the world in college graduates,” said Duncan. “We need folks who can function well in a knowledge economy, we need folks who can be productive citizens, and we have a vast untapped pool here who are being denied that opportunity,” he said.
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