State department data indicate Minnesota's four-year graduation rate is 75.9 percent; its dropout rate is 4.9 percent. The remaining students are either listed as "continuing" their education or their status is unknown.
It is something simpler and humbler: recognition that America is, as James Madison said, the "hope of liberty throughout the world," and that America is different from other nations in ways that are consequential for the world.
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