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The educational aspirations of today’s rural Pennsylvania youth have decreased over the past decade, according to the research, Rural Youth Survey: Trends and Developments in the Attitudes and Aspirations of Rural Pennsylvania Youth. The research, conducted in spring 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, found that more youth today plan to earn a high school diploma or less, and fewer plan to complete a four-year college degree than rural youth surveyed in 2010.

Researchers Dr. Lacey Wallace, Dr. Sam Tanner, Dr. Freyca Calderon-Berumen, and Dr. Lauren Jacobson of Penn State Altoona, document...