Jonquilyn Hill

1 week ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

Is college for everybody? According to Chelsea Waite, a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, the answer is no. And more students, parents, and educators are realizing it. Waite spent two years speaking to administrators, teachers, parents, and students at six high schools in New England to learn more about post-grad desires.

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

“Should I buy a house?” That’s the question that a listener, Miranda, brought to Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show. “I think that’s always been the go-to investment for past generations,” she says. “You buy a house and that’s kind of your retirement plan, and that just doesn’t seem realistic or even attainable.”Miranda is far from alone in questioning whether homeownership is still the reliable engine of building wealth as it was for past generations.

1 month ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

If you’ve read the news lately, you’ve probably heard that Americans may be in the middle of a sex recession. But at least one demographic of people are having the best sex of their lives: Gen X women. At least that’s the argument writer Mireille Silcoff makes in her most recent piece in the New York Times magazine. In it, she explores her own middle-aged sexual awakening. “I was trying to explain a moment that I was really seeing everywhere,” she told Vox.

1 month ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

The buzzwords “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are everywhere right now, but you can’t be blamed if you don’t quite have a handle on what they mean. The origins of DEI date back to the civil rights era — but recently “DEI” has been thrown around with regard to everything from plane crashes to Super Bowl halftime performances. These business practices are under renewed scrutiny now, thanks to conservative activists and President Donald Trump’s newly enacted policies. That’s something Eric M.

1 month ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

Some things feel like a fact of life: The sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. Winter turns to spring, which turns to summer, which turns to fall. And the deadline to get a REAL ID gets pushed back. That last one may seem more in flux than the other examples, but it’s been true for nearly a quarter of a century. So what’s keeping this 9/11-era law from being fully enforced? And why haven’t we just given up on implementing it?