U.S. Young Adults Rank 12th in College Degrees
Sunday Dish is Alleyoop’s weekly collection of college prep news headlines. Discuss these topics with your teen over your own Sunday dish.
College degrees are as important as ever, yet we’re falling further behind – at home and abroad. Check out this week’s college readiness news.
This Week’s Top Five Headlines on College Prep and Career Readiness
1. U.S. Drops to 12th in Young Adults with College Degrees (Youth Today)
The College Board says the U.S. is now ranked 12th among developed countries – including Canada, Korea and the Russian Federation – in the number of people aged 25 to 34 with an associate degree or higher. Equally interesting, America is ranked 4th in the world for adults aged 55 to 65 with an associate degree or higher. So young adults are either not able or not motivated to follow in the footsteps of their earlier generations. The College Board has set a goal to fix the problem by 2025. Is that too late? Read the full College Completion Report.
2. Will High Standards Really Help Kids? (The Washington Post)
Education standards are the topic of the day pretty much every day in college readiness news. However, researcher William J. Mathis, managing director of the Education and the Public Interest Center, says “we have no clear evidence that they are particularly effective.” He also argues against people who say education standards are needed to keep U.S. students competitive in a global economy; there are no studies to support that direct relationship. Still, do you think education standards are better to have than not? Reply to this post below and let us know.
3. The First Year Out: Freshman Year in College (Saipan Tribune)
For all students, high school graduation is a major achievement and a wonderful celebration. But just a few short months later those fresh graduates will enter a world where no one knows their name, they are expected to think critically and they have to do their own laundry. This article shares the stories of several first year college students in Northern Mariana Islands.
4. Middle School Girls Live at CSULB during Engineering Girls Internship Program (Everything Long Beach)
In an effort to further develop its Women Engineers @ the Beach program and expose more young ladies to mathematics and sciences, CSULB recently invited 10 advanced middle school girls to learn what it would be like to be an engineer. Students participating in the internship program will also take part in an eight year study to track their progress. Will they become engineers? We’ll have to wait and see.
5. Boy Scouts of America Takes Center Stage in Nation’s Capital to Celebrate 100th Anniversary (PRNewswire)
Boy Scouts from every state will join in the festivities this weekend. It’s expected to be the biggest Boy Scouting celebration to hit D.C. since FDR held the first Boy Scout Jamboree on the National Mall.