Opinion: The payoff of a college education

The share of high school graduates entering college last fall – 66 percent – was the lowest since 2006, and Washington Post political columnist Michael Gerson connects the trend to an ideology espoused by one-time GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

During the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Santorum told a tea party group, “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.”

Gerson points to an increasing high school graduation rate – the graduation rate increased from 71.7 percent in 2001 to 81 percent in 2012, with serious gains for Hispanic and African American students – and he asks, after high school, what then?


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