Startseite
Podcasts
It's Been a Minute Podcast
Gen Z asks: what is school for? Plus, rebranding gentrification

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

It's Been a Minute vor 2 Jahren

0:00

39:44

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.

Want to be featured on IBAM? Record a voice memo responding to
Brittany's question at the end of the episode and send it to
ibam@npr.org.

Learn more about sponsor message choices:
podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy