{"id":7869,"date":"2019-05-25T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:17:50","slug":"7869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/7869\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Why does all of this matter? \u201cA bachelor\u2019s degree is the single most influential determinant in multigenerational change and ending the cycle of poverty,\u201d Catherine Suitor, an administrator at Alliance, a network of Los Angeles high schools, told me. Jasmine Pachnanda, another Alliance administrator, had this to say about high-school graduates: \u201cWe need to make sure we are guiding them toward colleges where they are going to be successful.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">I hope you\u2019ll read the piece \u2014 or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/05\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/college-graduation-rates-ranking.html?te=1&amp;nl=opinion-today&amp;emc=edit_ty_20190524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">play around with the graphics<\/a>. And if you have suggestions for future higher education work we should do, we\u2019re all ears. Drop me a line at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:leonhardt@nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leonhardt@nytimes.com<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does all of this matter? \u201cA bachelor\u2019s degree is the single most influential determinant in multigenerational change and ending the cycle of poverty,\u201d Catherine Suitor, an administrator at Alliance, a network of Los Angeles high schools, told me. Jasmine Pachnanda, another Alliance administrator, had this to say about high-school graduates: \u201cWe need to make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/7869\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}