... from different social backgrounds live a different lifestyle in comparison to other classes, and each class provides different opportunities to its affiliates. The higher within the pyramid of class a person is ranked, the more advantage an individual has in comparison to a lower class individual. The responsibility is on everyone to eliminate this division and restructure the foundation of the "American Way ... . Just as an example, as a teenager, I do not remember ever knowing someone who made it through college and successfully completed a degree program. The majority of students' at ...

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... end up graduating." (Porter). This results in graduation rates in this country suffering, because as Porter states, "Including community colleges, the graduation rate drops to 53 percent. Only Hungary does worse."(Porter).  Currently, the United States is ranked nineteenth out of twenty-eight countries in college graduation rates. A ranking that comes from the "OECD", which tracks education ... ...

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