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Idaho gets "D" grade for kids going to college. Higher education?

November 13, 2007 /

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Idaho gets a "D" grade for the number of its students going to college, a rank that puts the state alongside Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina.

There’s only a 35 percent chance that a student in Idaho who is 19 or younger will go to college, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education http://www.highereducation.org/ , a San Jose, Calif., nonprofit research group that studies education in all 50 states. That’s down from 40 percent in 1992, the group said.

Full Story: http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/11/13/ap-state-id/d8ssakmo0.txt

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Higher education?

By MAUREEN DOLAN
Staff writer

Local educators are not surprised by a report from a California research group giving Idaho a "D" grade when it comes to sending students to college.

Full Story: http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2007/11/14/news/news01.txt

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