CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS October 27, 2013 17:41:00
Kids who go to college intending to study science, math, and engineering. and we know the vast majority of students who start out in the -- pursuing the three fields drop out. over 50%. the question is, who drops out? and the answer is, so some -- 50% of the kids are thwarted in their ambition to become -- have a science, math, engineering degree. who gets thwarted? well, it's not the least-intellectually capable students who drop out. it is the students, rather, who happen to be at the bottom of their class, regardless of what school they are at. so the bottom half of the class at harvard in ...