Technology and the Completion Agenda

The Completion Agenda Goal: At least 55 percent of Americans hold a postsecondary degree by 2025.

The White House, the Lumina Foundation for Education, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Call them the Three Tenors of the completion agenda http://completionagenda.collegeboard.org/ .

In one of his first speeches as president, Barack Obama emphasized the need for a higher rate of postsecondary completion. Lumina had already been investing in projects designed to get more Americans into college and out with a degree. And Gates has, in recent years, made college completion as basic to the legacy of its eponymous benefactor as, well, BASIC. (Others have since echoed the call.)

Now, the technology section is joining the band — and may be holding the instruments that could make the whole song a hit: data analytics.

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