In this post, Dintersmith looks at the recent college admissions bribery scandal and what it says about how America educates children. But for context, some 4 million teenagers leave our K-12 schools annually. We’ve let our college-acceptance feeding frenzy define the lives of our K-12 children: what they study, what skills they develop and how they view their worth. Having fully embraced the “college for all” mentality, our K-12 kids march to the drum of college admissions. It highlights nascent initiatives seeking to align high school transcripts and college admissions with what matters in life, not empty numbers.

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2019 18:00 UTC