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How Rising Higher Ed Costs Change Student Choices. (Doubting College, Ep. 6)

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This Week with EdSurge
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Sep 17, 2024
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Summary

The high cost of college is changing how high schoolers think about whether or not to go. A new book, “Rethinking College,” argues for changing the narrative around higher education to be more welcoming to gap years, apprenticeships and other alternatives to college at a time where a degree is so expensive that students worry about its value.