Human Growth and Development / Unit 11 HGD 1552 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Rise of College
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The idea
Rising credential demands helped create emerging adulthood: US high-school completion rose from twenty-four percent in nineteen forty to ninety-one percent of adults by twenty twenty-one.
In practice
About eighteen and a half million students enrolled in US colleges in fall twenty twenty-one.
Where people slip
About thirty percent of students change majors and about ten percent change more than once, which is developmentally normal.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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