Education Roads Less Traveled: Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees

Every year, large numbers of American young people who are not terribly interested in attending a four—year college reluctantly enroll anyway, effectively pressured by combinations of parents, peers, teachers, guidance counselors, and the normative air they breathe. More than occasionally, they wind up confirming that collegiate life is not for them and, sooner or later, drop out. From there, again more than occasionally, they find themselves unemployed or underemployed, in big—time student...