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562: Why Higher Ed is in Disfunction - with Jon Marcus, Higher Education Editor at The Hechinger Report

The EdUp Experience

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College Isn't Worth It

A lot of students now are not just adult students but traditional age college students are looking for to get through quicker. The second you take only four courses in your first semester, your freshman year, you're now not going to graduate in four years. It has to be five and very well meaning universities and colleges have encouraged especially first-generation students from poorly resourced public high schools to only take four coursesJust so that they can ease their transition into college. They're not they're not doing those kids any service.

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