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Americans tend to think of K-12 and the years that follow as two distinct and separate parts. In reality, they should be viewed as a continuum, suggest Lumina Foundation's Chauncy Lennon and Anne Stanton of the Linked Learning Alliance.
Reimagining this system means that colleges must reach down, and high schools must reach up. Together, they need to ensure that students are learning skills and earning credentials that will prepare them for careers and success in today’s economy.

Celeste Cervantes refers to her experiences in school as a series of "happenstances." Her parents weren’t always informed about opportunities, but things worked out anyway.
Cervantes is in her final year of college at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She's majoring in elementary education—and wants to be a teacher so that students like her won’t have to depend on chance.

Last year, the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor forced communities, campuses included, to examine how policing helps and harms the communities it intends to serve.
This episode of Today's Students, Tomorrow's Talent explores the current state of campus policing on college campuses.

Ongoing labor shortages in retail, health care, and other industries are helping to prod large employers to get more creative about hiring, training, and retaining workers.
Many of these programs currently enroll a relatively small number of students. Yet, several experts say big-budget skills training efforts from Verizon, IBM, Walmart, and Amazon reflect a new level of commitment worth watching.

Much of the focus on curbing abuses in for-profit higher education has centered on actions by the federal government—but states, too, can do a better job to protect students from these bad actors.
For instance, states could require for-profit providers to make mandatory disclosures to provide greater transparency to potential or current students and their families.

Community college leaders are celebrating new legislation that allows their institutions to offer more four-year degrees. The measure is also a big win for the national community college baccalaureate movement.
Assembly Bill 927 allows the California Community Colleges system to offer up to 30 new bachelor’s degree programs per year, provided the programs fill different workforce needs than the programs already available within the state’s university systems.