Parents: If you want your student to make it to a bachelor's degree, it's far more important for him or her to earn at least B's in high school and reach for the best possible college. Oh, and saving a few thousand bucks by sending your kid to a community college could turn out to be an expensive mistake.
Some of the best-respected educational researchers in the US are likely to reconsider much conventional wisdom today with the release of surprising findings from an analysis of US educational records of more than 200,000 US freshmen who started at public four-year colleges in 1999.
