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Sunday, June 19, 2016
This chart tells a fascinating story about higher education - Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post
There is this indelible image of college being a place where fresh-faced 18-year-olds spend their days in lecture halls and nights bunking in dorms on tree-lined campuses. In reality, higher education experiences are a lot more diverse than that. So much has changed in a generation: who attends college, how they learn, and what their lives are like outside of the classroom. A chart produced by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation captures the complexity of the higher education landscape and why there can be no one-size-fits-all approach. Take a look.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/08/this-chart-tells-a-fascinating-story-about-higher-education/