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There is no such thing as a “typical” profile of the adult learner seeking knowledge and economic mobility. Juan is a project manager for a design firm. He is the married father of four (including four-year-old triplets). To advance at work, Juan needed an engineering degree.

Last year, in his first joint address to Congress, President Obama lobbed his higher education moon shot stating, “By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” Achieving this goal will mean radically disrupting our current educational trajectory: only 39 percent of our fellow Americans earn a two- [...]



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