NY Times article. Colleges are "Failure Factories"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/business/economy/09leonhardt.html

An excerpt:

...Yes, inadequate precollege education is a problem. But high schools still produce many students who have the skills to complete college and yet fail to do so. Turning them into college graduates should be a lot less difficult than fixing all of American education.
“We could be doing a lot better with college completion just by working on our colleges,” as Robert Shireman, an Education Department official who has read an early version of the book, says....
- David Leonhardt, New York Times