{"id":10117,"date":"2026-09-15T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:19:12","slug":"why-more-families-are-rethinking-four-year-college-keri-d-ingraham-on-newsmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2026\/09\/15\/why-more-families-are-rethinking-four-year-college-keri-d-ingraham-on-newsmax\/","title":{"rendered":"Why More Families Are Rethinking Four-Year College: Keri D. Ingraham on Newsmax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Keri D. Ingraham appeared on Newsmax on Monday, September 14, to explain why more families are considering alternatives to a four-year college degree for their kids. Dr. Ingraham also discussed the Trump Administration’s efforts to cut out DEI programs from the U.S. Department of Education and to improve learning outcomes nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Students need to be rewarded for their merit, for academic excellence, not based on their skin color,” said Ingraham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keri D. Ingraham appeared on Newsmax on Monday, September 14, to explain why more families are considering alternatives to a four-year college degree for their kids. Dr. Ingraham also discussed the Trump Administration’s efforts to cut out DEI programs from the U.S. Department of Education and to improve learning outcomes nationwide. “Students need to be rewarded for their merit, for academic excellence, not based on their skin color,” said Ingraham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":10126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2949,845,2574,2457,2421,844,1445,1294,2993,2863,3201,2602,85,214,209,846],"coauthors":[1059],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-academic-excellence","tag-college","tag-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei","tag-donald-trump","tag-four-year-college","tag-higher-education","tag-keri-d-ingraham","tag-keri-ingraham","tag-learning-outcomes","tag-merit","tag-national-update","tag-newsmax","tag-parents","tag-students","tag-u-s-department-of-education","tag-universities"],"acf":[],"author_names":["American Center for Transforming Education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10132,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions\/10132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10117"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}