Weldon,+Tim

Weldon, Tim. "Improving Access to Postsecondary Education Through Early College High Schools." (2009): 20. Print.
 * "More college graduates are needed in the U.S. to keep pace with developing countries and to meet the demands of an ever-changing work force. Some experts predict the U.S. will need more than 15 million more college graduates by 2025 to equal the degree attainment in top-performing countries."
 * "While the rates of degree attainment among minorities have increased, minorities and low-income young people continue to be less likely than their white and more affluent counterparts to enroll in college."
 * "One initiative that has gained momentum during the past decade is the early college high school movement. Some 200 early college high schools exist in 24 states. These high schools are aligned with postsecondary institutions and allow students from underserved populations to take tuition-free college courses while also taking high school courses. The college courses generally are transferrable to postsecondary institutions."
 * "Anthony Carnavale, an economist and director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the workforce, predicted by 2012, the U.S. will face a shortage of 850,000 associate degrees, 3.2 million bachelor’s degrees and 2.9 million graduate degrees."
 * "Clearly, the lack of young Americans participating in higher education and obtaining college degrees has troubling implications"
 * "Particularly problematic is the fact that racial minorities are less likely than their white counterparts to earn a bachelor’s degree."
 * "While the U.S. boasts the largest percentage of college-educated people in the 55 to 64 age group, these people are nearing retirement age. According to the Pathways to College Network, the young adult age group (25-34) ranks seventh in the world in the rate of college degrees"