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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-14T05:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Online shopping. Smartphones with 5G. Meal delivery. Instantaneous access to information. So much of the world has speeded up. But college seems to take forever. Now change may be coming to long-standing practices that slow students down. Some colleges and the accreditors and states that oversee them are adding and approving three-year bachelor’s degrees that […]\n\nThe post Putting college on the fast track appeared first on The Hechinger Report.",
  "title": "Putting college on the fast track"
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