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...participants to graduate from college in three years, it's showing initial signs of success. Other colleges are redoubling their retention efforts. And last fall, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced up to $500 million in grants, aiming to double college-completion rates by 2025. As Sara Goldrick-Rab, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and co-author of the Brookings report, puts it, "Money speaks louder than anything...
...Owen J. Goldrick had come all the way from County Sligo, Ireland to prospect for gold in the West. But when the boys in the back room heard him talk and listened to his flow of Latin, they dubbed him "Professor" there & then, took up a $250 collection, and told him that he was going to open and teach the town's first school...
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