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As for our colleges, I often point out that nearly 2/3rds of our HS grads go to college, more than half.  In Europe, the figure is under 40%.

If you make college more selective, and less common, you'll have better students, and better output.  Duh.

In the US we use college as a de facto vocational program for a massive array of jobs, none of which college educations are targeted for.  Aside from some specific disciplines like engineering, college was never supposed to be a vocational program to qualify graduates for jobs, and college works very poorly in that capacity.

It's so crazy and backward.

• The focus on "graduation rates" as the end-all, be-all in assessing Local Schools creates humongous pressure on education administrators to just graduate everyone regardless of qualifications.  
• Because of #1, a HS diploma is no longer a guarantee of ANYTHING so employers more-or-less ignore it.  
• As a work-around for issue #2, some employers tried using aptitude tests.  Unfortunately, SCOTUS effectively outlawed this practice in Griggs vs Duke Power so employers began using college degrees as a weed-out.  
• Colleges face the same pressure for "graduation rates" that HS's face.  See, for example, the NCAA's APR which simply rewards schools for graduating athletes.  So colleges find a way to graduate as high a percentage as possible of their admits.  
• Relevant to #4 is @Cincydawg 's point from above that around 2/3 of HS grads go to college.  This is ridiculously too high so colleges are admitting a substantial number of "students" who are simply incapable of legitimate college academics.  
• To solve the riddle created by #5, colleges have resorted to the widespread practice of grade inflation so now college degrees are no longer worth what they used to be.  
• Employers obviously noticed that #6 had created a slew of "College graduates" who were not up to the prior standard.  Professional associations noticed too so:
• Employers and professional associations frequently now require graduate degrees for things that used to only require an undergraduate degree.  

• End the focus on graduation rates at both the HS and the College level.  
• Ensure that a HS diploma MEANS something to employers.  No more diplomas for illiterate kids, etc.  
• Shrink college access to closer to the ~40% of the workforce that actually needs a degree.  
• End grade inflation at the college level so that a degree re-attains the meaning that it once had.  No more College diplomas for kids who probably shouldn't have a HS diploma let alone college.  
• For the kids who don't achieve college acceptance or who don't want to go, massively increase resource allocation to Vocational Education at both the HS level (11th and 12th and maybe some 10th grade) but also at the post-HS level.  The infamous "Yale or Jail" dichotomy needs to die.  You don't have to get a degree to have a successful, productive, and happy life but having some training in SOMETHING is better than none.  Also, training in an employable skill is vastly better than getting a worthless degree then finding that you are only qualified for jobs that you could have done as a HS dropout six years earlier.   

"We" created an aura that a college degree is the requirement for success, and any kid who doesn't go to college must be dumb.

And it's of course a business now here.

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