I recently stood before hundreds of young people in California’s Central Valley; more than 60 percent were on that day becoming the first in their family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Their very presence at University of California, Merced’s spring commencement ceremony disrupted a major narrative in our nation about who college is for — […] The post OPINION: A college degree opens doors, but only when we remove obstacles for young people appeared first on The Hechinger Report.