{"id":98051,"date":"2025-08-11T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/republicans-express-doubt-over-four-year-college-for-children-survey-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:16:03","slug":"republicans-express-doubt-over-four-year-college-for-children-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/republicans-express-doubt-over-four-year-college-for-children-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Express Doubt Over Four-Year College for Children, Survey Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Greater differences emerged around whether students should enroll in a four-year college immediately after high school; 58% of college graduates and 53% of Democrats preferred sending their children straight to a four-year college, compared to 27% of Republicans and 30% of parents without a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are more likely to say that their children should go straight into the workforce or job training or certification, followed by independents and those without a college degree. Other options include taking time off or joining the military. <\/p>\n<p>But overall, 4 out of 10 parents want to see their child attend a four-year college or university, making it the most popular option by far. This is something that comes up repeatedly in surveys about higher education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see that people value four-year [degrees],\u201d Brown said. \u201cWe see that people have trouble accessing it and have some concerns about the system, but they do greatly value it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ --><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/cW11G\/4\/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The survey also measured the preferences of non-parents. It asked respondents to think about a child in their life, whether a nephew or niece, grandchild or family friend under 18 who has not graduated from high school. Responses were remarkably similar: 55% said they wanted this child to attend either a four-year or two-year college, compared to 59% of parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/08\/10\/republicans-express-doubt-over-four-year-college-for-children-survey-shows\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater differences emerged around whether students should enroll in a four-year college immediately after high school; 58% of college graduates and 53% of Democrats preferred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}