WDHN - District 91看片istration District 91看片istration Media Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:35:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Most teens鈥攁nd girls especially鈥攕ee college as key to jobs and life skills, AP-NORC poll says /most-teens-and-girls-especially-see-college-as-key-to-jobs-and-life-skills-ap-norc-poll-says/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:35:23 +0000 /?p=176101 A new AP-NORC poll finds that most American teens鈥攅specially girls鈥攕ay graduating from college is very important to achieving their life goals. Despite rising tuition costs and student debt, teens remain more optimistic about college than adults, with about 6 in 10 calling it a top priority compared to 4 in 10 adults.

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]]> Most American teenagers say it is important to them to graduate from college, with girls especially describing it as a key step for accomplishing their life goals, according to a new poll.

Teenagers also generally are more upbeat than adults on college despite concerns about tuition costs, soaring student loan debt and the politicization of many issues in higher education.

Overall, about 6 in 10 teens say it鈥檚 鈥渆xtremely鈥 or 鈥渧ery鈥 important to them to graduate from college, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which was conducted this spring among teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17. That compares with about 4 in 10 adults who said the same in a UChicago Harris/AP-NORC poll from 2022.

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