{"id":33135,"date":"2012-06-19T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cs_monitor_bachelors_degree_has_it_lost_its_edge_and_its_value\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:32:13","slug":"cs_monitor_bachelors_degree_has_it_lost_its_edge_and_its_value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33135","title":{"rendered":"(CS Monitor) Bachelor&#39;s degree: Has it lost its edge and its value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children of white middle-class, college-educated parents, Hugh Green and Turner Jenkins are just the kind of kids everyone would expect to be stepping out into the world one sunny June day, bachelor&#8217;s degrees in hand. But they both veered from the traditional American educational route.<\/p>\n<p>One decided that a bachelor&#8217;s was never going to be enough, while the other concluded it was unnecessary&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Once the hallmark of an educated and readily employable adult, the bachelor&#8217;s degree is losing its edge. Quicker, cheaper programs offer attractive career route alternatives while the more prestigious master&#8217;s is trumping it, making it a mere steppingstone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/The-Culture\/Family\/2012\/0617\/Bachelor-s-degree-Has-it-lost-its-edge-and-its-value\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children of white middle-class, college-educated parents, Hugh Green and Turner Jenkins are just the kind of kids everyone would expect to be stepping out into the world one sunny June day, bachelor&#8217;s degrees in hand. But they both veered<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33135\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,582,149,111,119,133,597,98,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-education","category-globalization","category-history","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}