High school diploma: Ticket to nowhere

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High school diploma: Ticket to nowhere

After graduating from a large, private high school in Fairfax, Virginia in 1998, Laura Cruz, now 32, enrolled in the University of South Carolina, but dropped out after only four weeks ... “Just three decades ago, about three quarters of all the jobs in our economy were being filled with a high school diploma or less,” says Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia.