Uncertain Steps

This is the last in a series of posts discussing the various causes of a high percentage of young adults who start with the goal of getting a college degree and end up falling far short of that.
In previous posts, we discussed lack of financial resources and/or academic skills as likely reasons why there is [...]

This is the third part in a series of posts discussing the million teens each year attempting college and quitting before ever obtaining a degree.
The last post discussed the likelihood of finances being a legitimate obstacle, or if it only became an obstacle when the student had no real desire or direction. The second potential [...]

In the first part of this series about struggling for success in college, I proposed that there are only a few possible reasons for kids starting college and dropping out before ever getting a degree:

They couldn’t find the money to pay for it.

They didn’t have the academic skills to survive.

They had no idea [...]

I don’t think any of us have to look too far from home to see how much difficulty many teens are having finding success after high school.  I always expected there was a fair number of young adults who ATTEMPTED the college route and didn’t make it, or at least didn’t get a degree in [...]

When I first started researching information about careers and how best teens should explore their future, I did what I always do when I want information about something (right after Google), I took a drive to Barnes and Noble to find some relevant books. Certainly I wasn’t the only one that had concerns.
What really struck [...]

Even though my personal exploration of the process used by young adults to find a career direction has spanned several years, each year my daughters get older it starts to hit a little closer to home.
I presumed, as most parents probably do, that the school would be doing whatever was necessary to move the kids [...]

Over the years of working in a career that involved daily interaction with lots of people, I had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of teenagers and their parents.  Inevitably, most conversations with high school students led to the  question, “What are you going to do when you graduate?” or to the parent, “What is [...]