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New England colleges could go high-tech to good advantage

New England’s universities are famed across the globe. But today thousands of young New Englanders lack either the grades or motivation, or both, to get into college. The prospect’s even dimmer for many laid-off manufacturing workers.

How come? What can be done about it?

Education leaders from across New England, convened by the New England Board of Higher Education, met in Worcester recently to wrestle with precisely that question.

The challenge is real. We’re into a century when workers without a community or four-year college degree — including strong grounding in math and science — will be consigned to low-paid jobs. Take 100 graduating ninth-graders in New England today. Based on recent performance, there’s not a state in the region in which more than 77 will actually graduate from high school, 52 will actually enter college, or 29 will successfully graduate with either an associate or bachelor’s degree.

By Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson

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