{"id":1774,"date":"2018-01-18T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:53:47","slug":"video-the-forgotten-college-ready-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/video-the-forgotten-college-ready-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Forgotten College-Ready Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-vGcqowMyg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new video from Georgetown&#8217;s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights a vexing problem.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, 500,000 students who graduated in the top half of their high school class fail to complete a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of these students go to college, but drop out,&#8221; the video narrator explains. &#8220;So they get all the debt and none of the benefits a degree confers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The short animated film highlights the consequences for both students and the American economy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Consider these findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High school grads who never attend college earn $1 million less over their lifetime when compared to college grads.<\/li>\n<li>If the 500,000 &#8220;forgotten&#8221; students cited above received bachelor&#8217;s degrees, they would provide a collective $400 billion boost to the US economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The takeaway? More resources are needed to help talented students get to and through college.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A good place to start is spending an additional $5,000 a year per student for support services to get them to graduation,&#8221; the video notes. &#8220;These students are college-ready and deserve a chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K-vGcqowMyg\">Watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/call-for-proposals-submission-deadline-extended-for-national-conference\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from Georgetown&#8217;s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights a vexing problem. Every year, 500,000 students who graduated in the top half of their high school class fail to complete a college degree. &#8220;Most of these students go to college, but drop out,&#8221; the video narrator explains. &#8220;So they get all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/video-the-forgotten-college-ready-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: The Forgotten College-Ready Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-readiness"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-sC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}