What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature

at a per-student cost of $306 (Jacobson 2006). For these and related reasons, the American College Testing Program (2005) declared that the nation has “a college readiness crisis.” Of the 45 percent of students who start college and fail to complete their degree, less than one-quarter are dismissed for poor academic performance.

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