Less than half the students who start at America’s public colleges make it to graduation. David Kirp, a prominent education policy expert at the University of California, Berkeley, says it’s because few colleges bother to do anything about it. So Kirp went around the country to visit campuses that are doing something. Programs like CUNY’s ASAP, ACE and CUNY Start became an uplifting chapter of his provocative–and prescriptive–new book, “The College Dropout Scandal.”

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Read David Kirp’s New York Times op-ed about how CUNY is keeping students on track to graduate

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