For the first time in history, a third of Americans age 25-29 have earned a bachelor's degree, according to new analysis from the Pew Research Center. High school graduation rates are also at an all-time high, with 90% of those 25-29 holding a high school diploma.
Reports the
New York Times:
Over the past few years, education experts have warned that the United States had undergone a worrisome "education reversal," in which older Americans are more educated than younger ones. For example, in 2007, the share of adults aged 45 to 64 who had graduated from high school or earned a bachelor's degree was slightly higher than among 25- to 29-year-olds.
But now, the report found, "the education reversal that arose in the first decade of the 2000s has vanished or been reversed by recent improvements in the education attainment of young adults."
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