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Young people value earn-and-learn opportunities, such as "apprenticeship degrees" in teaching, health care and other occupations.

Confidence in higher education's value is falling.

Georgetown, Duke, NYU and 13 other colleges cost more than $100,000 a year, including tuition, room and board. It's not true that "nobody pays the sticker price."

5% of college programs don't raise earnings -- at all -- and won't be eligible for federal loans. Some would-be art, music and theater students could have to pay their own way or do without a degree.

Can AI install a sink? Worried about college loans and competing with AI, more Gen Zers are going to trade school.

Minimally guided "discovery learning" privileges the privileged student who know what they're looking for.

"Cognitive surrender" -- let the chatbot do the work -- is getting worse.