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National Apprenticeship Week, April 26 to May 2, focuses attention on earn-and-learn pathways to opportunity. It also underscores a larger truth. Higher education has a work problem.For decades, the script for upward mobility asked students to do something that, for many, was a financial burden. They should push work to the margins, gain a degree, and then get a job.That model left many with debt,... Read More
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