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But this interesting piece in last Sunday's New York Times looks under the hood of certain truisms about college majors—and exposes six "myths" that may not be actually wrong, but a lot more nuanced than you might initially think.
But here's one reason why this is important: When students have the option of studying for a four-year degree at a community college, they may be less likely to attend a for-profit school. For-profits are notorious for leaving students—predominantly students of color—in burdensome debt and with little chance of graduating.
Despite ongoing protests and a concerted effort to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president, electors will likely vote for the reality star as president
P-TECH, the network of six-year high schools whose graduates leave school with a free associate degree, business mentors, and years of practical workplace experience as well as a diploma, is the education model taking over the world.
According to the Atlantic piece, a 2013 Oxford study estimates that nearly 50% of American jobs are at risk of becoming obsolete in the face of technological advances. With technology advancing so rapidly, what’s a student to do? Today’s students could very plausibly be studying for careers that won’t exist much longer after they graduate.
