NPR Ed – Anya Kamenetz
“Getting a high school diploma is as good for health as quitting smoking. That’s the finding from a study released Wednesday by researchers…Similarly, 110,068 deaths could be avoided for that year if every adult who already had some college finished their bachelor’s degrees. And if everyone in the population got a bachelor’s degree, the total untimely deaths would be reduced by 554,525…The connection between education levels and health has been well-documented, and, this study found, it’s growing in recent generations.”(more)