Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius

What I've been wondering is, if these kinds of programs succeed, how do we ensure a smooth transition to the new career paths at the high school level? I worry that we're going to enter (or maybe have already entered!) a long period of bifurcation, where most schools continue to teach kids they'd better go to college even as college increasingly sets them up for failure.

Race to the bottom.

I don't trust a company like Google to act in its students' and certificate holders' best interests. It's not hard to imagine that the certifications will all be tied back to a Google account that they can terminate at any time, at their discretion. On a more Google-y note, I wouldn't want to get an email in five years telling me that they're sunsetting their online certificate verification portal, meaning no one can actually trust my claims as a certificate holder.

College in the USA is an economic plague on young people. This most certainly can't be as bad.