Georgia must open doors to meet education goals, speaker says
by The Athens-Banner Herald
Feb 19, 2013 | 914 views | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Georgia needs to develop a sense of urgency if the state really wants to reach Gov. Nathan Deal’s goal of raising by 250,000 the number of its citizens graduating from college or technical training by the year 2020, a speaker said Monday at the University of Georgia.

Only about 34 percent of Georgia adults have a two- or four-year college degree, said James Applegate, vice president of education nonprofit The Lumina Foundation.

That’s well below the U.S. average of about 42 percent, which only ranks 12th in the world, and puts Georgia on a par with countries such as Slovenia and Greece, Applegate told about 450 participants in the second annual Complete College Georgia Summit at UGA’s Center for Continuing Education.

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