Gen Z asks: what is school for? Plus, rebranding gentrification

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

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It's September, which means millions of young learners across the country are dusting off their backpacks and heading back to school. But a new study from Gallup and The Walton Family Foundation has shown that students are less engaged, and feel less challenged than last year, and about half of them have no plans to get a Bachelor's degree right after high school. Host Brittany Luse is joined by Karin Klein, education reporter and author of Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree, and NPR Education Desk correspondent and Senior Editor Cory Turner to parse through what has next generation feeling despondent and if we need to rethink the purpose of high school.

Then, Brittany is on the housing hunt, but she's found that even outside major urban areas, small cities across the country are rapidly gentrifying. Richard E. Ocejo, author of Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City, joins Brittany to look at what happens when big city gentrifiers move to town and how some of them have rebranded gentrification.

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0:16.0	Hello, hello.
0:20.0	I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:24.4	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. This week we're connecting the dots between AI essays, teenage on we, and Bill Gates.
0:43.0	I know, I know.
0:44.0	How are all of these things connected?
0:46.0	Well, we're going to find out with NPR Education Desk
0:49.0	correspondent and senior editor,
0:51.0	Corey Turner, and Karen Klein, Education reporter and author of
0:54.8	Rethinking College.
0:56.1	Corey, Karen, welcome to it's been a minute.
0:58.4	Thank you, Brittany.
0:59.4	Thanks.
1:00.4	It's so great to have you both.
1:01.8	So it's September, which means the school year for many Americans is starting
1:06.8	back up if it hasn't already. I'm curious, were you the kind of people who
1:10.0	laid out what they were going to wear on the first day of school or did you just wing it?
1:13.4	Well, I do it now because I have to help my kids lay out what they're going to wear.
1:18.9	Otherwise, mornings are a disaster.
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