Johnquilyn Hill
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32 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I'm John Glenn Hill.
This is Explain It To Me, the show where you call in... I guess I'm calling because I want to know, how do people choose what they do after college or high school or when they're going to join the workforce? This feels like such a different landscape now. than it was for my parents.
And we get you answers. The landscape really is different right now. Other people are wondering what to do after graduation too.
That's Erica. She called us from Dallas, Texas. She's going to UT Austin this fall.
And she did have a little bit of an idea of what she might do after graduation.
I relate to Erica's experience. It represents what the last few decades of American high school education policy have looked like. Preparing every single student for college, no matter what. And it can be hard to resist that pull.
But remember that landscape the first caller was talking about? It's different in 2025. Gen Z and Gen Alpha have seen the toll of student debt and often say they don't want to take that on. They're not certain college will be the right fit for them. Having more options to choose from requires some evolution from the way we've always done things. At least, that's what Chelsea Waite says.
She studies education policy at the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State.
To understand what to change, Chelsea says we have to understand where this college for all policy came from in the first place.
Yeah. I remember my dad telling me this story of, you know, he was getting ready to go off to college and his school counselor was like, maybe you should just join the military and like phrased it like that, which is. Yeah.
Well, I think that this is a time, though, for you to realize that as a young college graduate, you are among the most fortunate people on earth.
Does this shift come from the students themselves or is it coming from somewhere else?
Parents are saying they want their kids to have a good life. You know, they just want their kids to be happy. And I think every generation of parents to some degree would say that. But are parents really OK if that means their kids aren't going to college?
Do you see any resistance from high schools, whether it's from teachers or guidance counselors, to telling a high school kid, no, you don't have to go to college?
We're back. It's Explain It To Me. With attitudes about college evolving, high schools are starting to expose their students to more things so they can make a more informed decision about what to do after graduation.
So for high schools in the Kansas City area, Megan's Career Center is getting pretty popular.
Yeah. How does the program work exactly? Like, okay, a student is like, I want to try this. I want to do this. When do they come in and what do they do?
What do you all do to prepare students for that work environment?
Are they still doing like, I guess, what we think of the typical high school classes? Like, is it like, well, got to go to calculus or got to get to, you know, English? Is that are those classes happening in tandem?
Are the high schools that the students are coming from, are they on board with this?
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