uses job-market data to help students plan their futures, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Students at iLEAD Academy understand the regional job market, she writes. “They can tell you how much they’ll make as an entry-level robotics technician and whether the pay differential between an associate degree and a bachelor’s degree in that field justifies a four-year-college investment.” Superintendents of five districts near the Indiana border opened iLEAD as an “earl

College graduates earn about $600,000 more over their lifetimes than workers with only a high school education, reports the Hamilton Project. But there’s a huge earnings difference between graduates with different majors: Engineering pays more than social work. A new Hamilton study looks at how career paths after college explain earnings variations for people in the same major. An interactive tool shows career choices and earnings for various majors. What are 25- to 34-year-o