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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

The report shows that 37 percent of workers with a high school diploma have higher earnings than half of those with some college. What subjects people study, what fields they enter, even geography — all matter in determining income, said Anthony Carnevale, director of the center and a co-author of the report.

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

The experts raised similar concerns about a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt social studies book, Texas World Geography, which they said gave undue weight to critics who suggest that the current warming is due to the Earth’s natural cycle. Mead teaches at a private school where he is given the freedom to explore climate change in depth.

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