Fewer High School Graduates Go to College

Just 65.9 percent of students who graduated from high school in spring 2013 had enrolled in college by last October, the government reported this week. That was the lowest proportion since 2003. But the government also reported that among those graduates who did not go to college, and among new high school dropouts, the proportion with jobs was higher in 2013 than in the previous year, a possible indication that the job market is improving.