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"The trends are already heading that way," said Joe Berger, the study's co-author, noting that the numbers have been declining for more than a decade. "If we don't start paying attention now, it's going to be too late to correct it if it gets to be a significant problem."
"It shouldn't be hard to do," said [Blenda Wilson] "They're a captive audience for four years while they are here for college.""The groups that are there have to be educated up to a level that produces economic growth," said Miller. "In public education, the closing of the gap has been the target [in Texas] for the last 15 years. The idea was, 'We have to do better for everybody here.'"See the full content of this document
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Report: Brain Drain to Damage Ne Economy
The economic future of Massachusetts and the rest of New England looks very bleak, according to a study recently released by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. The reason, however, has nothing to do with the economy, the price of oil or inflation.
According to the study, entitled "New England 2020," the decreasing percentage of workers in the New England workforce with a bachelor's de...See the full content of this document
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