Quest to College

Start With Why

The vast majority of college awareness initiatives in the United States targets high school students. However, research shows that college readiness should begin in middle school. Not only does there need to be a paradigm shift in the age that we expose students to college, there needs to be a shift in the way we teach students about college.  

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As the economy continues to slowly recover and millions of job openings are expected to appear over the next decade, there is a growing call for more educated workers to fill those positions. But the current higher education graduation rate is stagnant, and the economy will face a shortage of 5 million workers with the necessary education and training by 2020, according to a study from researchers at Georgetown University.

Over the next several years, 55 million jobs will become available, researchers at Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce found in a study. The majority of those jobs will require some sort of education and training after high school, but without major changes to the nation's postsecondary education system – which includes community colleges, four-year institutions and technical and career schools – there will not be enough workers to fill those positions, the report says.

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