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Hey, we May Not Get More Spider-Man, But More Spider-pig is Always Welcome. Disney and 20th Century Studios Confirmed The Simpsons 2 with a poster on September 29. “Homer’s Coming Back for Seconds,” It Reads, and The “All-New Movie” is set for release on July 23, 2027. Initily, that dates was to be taken by a yet-entitled film-but no. Avengers: Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret WARSBoth of which were postposed to decor from May.

The first The Simpsons Movie was a global smash in 2007, Bringing in $ 536 million Worldwide, per Box Office mojo. Now, 20 years late, the sequel is finally being made. Why Wold Disney Want to Green-Light It Now? Well, in 2024, Co-Showrunner Al Jean Told Screen Rant break The Simpsons Team was “Really hoping for Inside Out 2 to do great this summer. ” (That Movie Ultimately Grossed Over A Billion Dollars.) “I Want to See the Animation Business Completely Returned to What It Was before the Pandemic,” Jean Added. The Simpsons theatrically. But i Understand that it’s an anssue above with About, ‘Where Waled You Release It? And How Wold You Release It? ‘”Asked and Answered. Big Yellow’s Back to the Big Screen, Baby.

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When Sam Johnson said he didn’t want to go to college after graduating from high school, his teachers didn’t blink.

That’s because Upton High School’s guiding philosophy is that college isn’t for everyone. Instead, the Wyoming school helps students tailor their education to one of three paths: college, military, or workforce. Since implementing the model eight years ago, school leaders are pleased to see that the focus on college is diminishing.

In Upton’s 2025 graduating class, nine students chose a four-year university, two chose a two-year community college, three chose trade school, four entered the workforce, and one entered the military. That’s a wider variety of paths compared to six years ago, when none went to trade school.

To prepare for his future, Johnson’s career counselor helped secure him an apprenticeship with a hunting guide — his chosen occupation — so that he could work toward obtaining his license.

“She called until somebody said yes,” Johnson said of his counselor. “I’m super, super grateful, because now I know what I’m doing after high school.” Now 18, he’s completed the necessary steps for certification. “I’m going in headfirst after high school into that job,” he said.

School districts across the US are radically rethinking the college pipeline as student debt remains high, private education options are on the rise, and more young people are choosing to forgo the standard four-year college experience. Business leaders have also been increasingly questioning the value of college. Mark Zuckerberg said college isn’t preparing students for the job market, and Palantir CEO Alex Karp said “no one cares” about elite education at his company. Peter Thiel’s fellowship program offers $200,000 to “young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.”

The Trump administration is also taking on the issue, calling for increased investments in trade schools. The White House’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a May interview with Fox News: “Apprenticeships, electricians, plumbers, we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University. And that’s what this administration’s position is.”

Still, 63% of recent high school grads enrolled in college in 2024, and that route is proven to lead to higher earnings. Upton, like other schools that spoke to Business Insider, isn’t eschewing college altogether. In fact, part of the shift to personalized learning involves finding creative ways to ensure that students can still compete academically despite the school’s rural location, said Superintendent Clark Coberly. For example, it partners with an outside education company for additional AP classes. Coberly said he “wanted to be able to have those doors open for post-secondary education.”

“We really wanted to commit to doing something that is more reflective of what society looks like today,” Coberly said.

Sophie Louderbeck was a 2024 Upton graduate who took advantage of the college path, but not before she got some real-world work experience. She was able to adjust her high school class schedule so she could work at a day care during the day to prepare to pursue her interest in elementary education.

“They do such an amazing job where, if you want to go down one path, they’re going to make it happen,” Louderbeck, 19, told Business Insider. “And if you change your mind, they’re going to make that happen.”

‘We had to reimagine what our system was about’

Inside Darian Samuelson’s science classroom at Upton on a recent Wednesday, a freshman was filling out a worksheet on chemical properties while a sophomore rubbed a balloon on his classmate’s head to demonstrate how static electricity works. A physics student was outside, working on designing his own project, and two anatomy students were sitting on a couch with their headphones on, reviewing their study materials.

Samuelson said that she provides students with the standards that they need to learn, and it is up to them how they want to practice the lesson — a core feature of Upton’s personalized learning model.

“It’s not about me. It’s not about what I like. It’s about the kids,” she said. “And we’ve seen the success, especially with the kids who don’t fit the traditional mold.”

In one North Dakota school district, Cory Steiner couldn’t be more thrilled with the shift away from traditional learning. He has worked for years to convince teachers, students — and most crucially, their parents — that success after high school doesn’t have to mean college, and he said he has seen college enrollment plunge from 90% to 65%.

“We had to reimagine what our system was about,” Steiner, the former superintendent at Northern Cass School District, said. He referenced a student who leveraged an internship working on HVAC systems into a job after graduation.

“That kid’s going to be making $75,000 a year in two years, and that’s what he wants to do,” Steiner said, “That’s a perfect kind of scenario.”

Still, selling parents and teachers on a proficiency-based grading system instead of traditional A’s and B’s was a big hurdle — especially when it came to scholarships and college acceptances. Most parents say they want their kids to go to college, and employers’ desire for a bachelor’s degree is unlikely to change in the coming years. Plus, data shows that a degree continues to pay off, with degree holders earning about $33,000 more in annual wages than high school diploma holders, per an analysis from The New York Federal Reserve.

“We had a lot of work to do,” Steiner said, adding that Upton converts its proficiency-based evaluations to a standard GPA that colleges accept. “That was a really, really difficult time.”

Back in Wyoming, Upton principal Joseph Samuelson — who is married to science teacher Darian — said that one mistake the school made early on was transitioning to an online curriculum they thought would help individualize lessons. Because of it, some parents withdrew their kids from the school. Just four teachers who were on staff before the switch remain.

“Parents saw that our kids’ teachers aren’t teaching,” Joseph said, adding that another mistake was rushing the transition without communicating with parents properly or giving teachers enough training.

Nick Johnson, Upton’s high school social studies teacher and Sam’s dad, recalled looking around his classroom at that time and seeing every student staring at their computers.

“I was thinking, ‘God, this isn’t it. We’re not doing anything good,’” Nick said. He started experimenting with different types of lesson structures and projects, like having dedicated periods when students could choose how they want to practice their lessons in ways that align with their interests and life goals.

Other teachers followed suit. Karla Ludemann, Upton’s computer science teacher, for example, prioritizes helping her students find opportunities for community involvement. One student built a website for a local woman who sells jewelry, and another student used his drone to take aerial photos for the town’s social media.

“The community members are good knowing that they’re not professionals, they’re kids, and they’re learning,” Ludemann said. To help prepare them for the workforce, her students are evaluated on their work ethic, including whether they show up on time. She said one of her past students graduated with a full-time job at a company he worked for while in high school, and it paid for his online college.

Now, Upton’s model is attracting new students. Joslyn Pischke, 15, transferred from a neighboring district and wants to go to college to study equine science. Joseph remembers when Pischke arrived as a freshman and asked to leave school early some days to compete in rodeo. His gut instinct was to say no.

“But then I thought, ‘This girl has done extremely well. Her test scores are through the roof,’” Joseph said. “She’s missed a good chunk of school, and it hasn’t shown. It’s coming down to this invisible wall, an invisible barrier. Why wouldn’t I let her change her schedule?”

Steiner, who left his position at Northern Cass for a leadership role at a different North Dakota school district, hopes that the personalized learning model will catch on at more schools and empower students to pursue what they’re actually interested in.

“Shifting a system is hard work,” Steiner said, adding that it was worth it because it “completely just shifted who we are and what we believe about teaching and learning.”

‘College isn’t the way of the world anymore’

While college enrollment is up slightly this year over last, it declined roughly 15% in the decade before the pandemic.

One main obstacle to picking the right path after high school graduation is a lack of awareness of the alternatives, said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of nonprofit Jobs for the Future. A recent survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found that while more than half of surveyed parents know “a great deal” about bachelor’s degrees, up to 58% of parents said they know “only a little” or “nothing at all” about non-college pathways like starting a business or pursuing an apprenticeship.

Flynn said the key is educating people that associate’s degrees, licensures, or trade schools can “add the same type of economic value and economic advancement as the traditional path.”

Public schools in rural areas are at the forefront of the trend to shift away from college as the primary focus. Teachers in the area largely attribute the shift to the nature of local job markets. In Wyoming and North Dakota, agriculture dominates the economy. Aric Keller, Upton’s welding instructor, said that he has at least six former students who now work in the welding industry — another prominent field in rural Wyoming. In urban school districts, local job opportunities may lean more toward finance, logistics, or aerospace, which are still more likely to require a degree. Nationwide, the share of jobs that require a college degree fell from 51% in 2017 to 44% in 2021.

At Oakes Public School in North Dakota, an alternative learning model helps differentiate the school amid growing competition from private and charter schools. Anna Sell, superintendent of Oakes, said that changing education needs for parents and students pushed her school to reconsider its model.

“We knew we needed to do things differently because our customers were not buying what we’re selling,” Sell told Business Insider. She added that the school voucher movement in North Dakota, like in over a dozen other states, has been especially strong, with more parents opting to use publicly funded vouchers to homeschool or send their kids to private school. It’s created a greater need for public schools to prove to families that there’s value in what they are offering, especially with enrollment declining nationwide.

“Our focus was to get kids ready to go to college, but college isn’t the way of the world anymore,” Sell said. Whatever postgrad path students choose, Sell said the school will work with them to provide relevant courses and workforce opportunities to ensure they excel.

Jayden Reinert, an 18-year-old recent graduate of Cherry Creek Innovation Campus in Colorado — a college and career preparedness facility for local high school students — said she worked with counselors to fit a job at a car dealership into her high school schedule. While she’s planning on going to college in the fall to study mechanical engineering, she wants to continue working at a dealership to further her skills.

“It’s a really great way to get into the workforce without being full-time committed to it and get an understanding of what the job is, and if it’s something that you would want to commit to when you’re out of school,” Reinert said.

It’s hard to imagine an America where college isn’t prioritized; it’s been a core feature of the American dream for decades. But the economy and labor market demands are changing, and Sell said it’s important that schools adjust and ensure students are equipped with the skills they need to succeed.

“More and more we’re saying this is OK, that college isn’t an option for everybody,” Sell said. “We have to start doing it differently for our kids in order to prepare them for their future, not ours.”

This is an as-told-to Essay Based on a Conversation with Phil Shawe, the Cofounder and CEO of Transrfect. The Company, Founded in 1992, Has Acquired Nine Companies Since Janary: H2A, Technicolor Games, Apostrophe Group, Bear Down, Blu Digital Group, Speech, Mill Studios, and Unbable. The Essay is edited for Length and Clarity.

Acquisitions have been near and dear to our strategy. Transpperfect Tries to Find Management Teams that are like-Minded or have really interesting technology that fits well with our group of technologies.

We don’t appproach merger and acquisions like a private equity firm Might, Which Could Involve Buying Companies, Making Posions Redundant, and Laying People off to Make the Unit More Profitable.

If we don’t feel like the People are a good mix, we probably won’t do the deal. Here’s what i look for in an investment.

Entrepreneurs

The No. 1 Thing Transpperfect is Looking for is Entrepreneurial Management.

One Reason i Love Working With Entrepreneurs so Much is that they able to make excellent decisions. They’re also Willing to Change Course If they Make a Decision and Later Decide It Wasn’t Correct. I’m Looking for Entrepreneurs to Join Transrfect and Grow Their Business With A Division of the Firm.

Our pitch to say is, “You didn’t get into this business to do back-office account. Let us handle all that. You go and would what you love, what take care of customers in your field, Build great, and sell it.”

Founders or Senior Executives Who Stay Post-Acquisition

We don’t love it when the founders or senior executives leave. We would Rather Have say Join Our Management Team.

We go into acquisitions striving to keep the vast majority of Employees and repurpose say. There are people who end up leaving, but we generaly try to keep the team together because that what we’re acquiring – the human talent and the technology.

We don’t call call deals acquisitions. We call everybody a Merger partner.

Back in the Old Days, We Waled Only Consider Founder-Let Businesses Where the Management Stayed on. Now, after we have the grown and some of the deals have grown, we are willing to consider private or other deals where management has left.

Companies that already use transperfect’s Technology

IF someone is running a social tool and we acquire say, one of the minimum things we were time is that that Change and use tools.

Their day-to-day business won’t change, but we’re going to need to change their accounting system to be on our Global System and Change their Language Technology Platform. We don’t want to use and pay for our directors Technology when we have a technology of Our Own. Our Technologies Are No. 1 in the market.

A sellable product

If we have feel like existting salesforce can’t seeing the product no Matter what, with training or a specializes salesperson, say that might not be attractive.

Some People Acques Businesses Just for Revenue or Logos, but We Rarely Pursue Acquisions Just to Generate Revenue Growth. That ends up happy for us, but it is not a goal for us that we’re a private company. We’re swimming to show to anyone. We’re Trying to Run a Great Business for Our Customers.

Companies that Diversify Transperfect’s Holdings

Acquiring another language company might not excite US unless in a new market Because we’re always look to diversify our offers and be a value-added partner to our customers.

For Example, We Acquired Blue Digital, A Company with Amazing Technology for Distribution Film and Streaming Content. We ALSO Acquired MPC, A Leading Film VFX Company That Workhed On “Dracula.”

Acquiring Companies in Different Time Also Means The Sun Never Sets on Our Business.

We love the fact that we have produced in different time zones in the world, working on projects for customers. If they need something done in a hurry, we can that with the crushing ours US staff we have so much staff international.

At the end of the day, though, these are just factors that it could have been orr. To be a great company, we need entrepreneurial management and preference coohnology that solves a problem or a problem we don’t address in our current technologies.

It was friday night, and i cann bicying a nearby trail or visiting the local bookstore. Instead, I was sitting in my owa City Apartment scrolling on my phone.

I passed a video of your nozzle in memorial union terrace for live music, a Photo of Old Friends Clintking Margaritas at A Mexican Restaurant I used to love…

As I saw more posts from my community back in Madison, Wisconsin, I felt a pang – not of jealousy, but something closer to grief.

It hit with that i’d now live in iowa City for two years and hadn’t made a single friend.

AS RISING RENT COSTS PUSHED WITH OUT OF MADISON, I SET MY SIGHTS ON Iowa City

I First Moved from Green Bay to Madison for College when I was 18. It Became My Home for the Next Three Decades – A City where I fell in love, became a mother, and had some of the great joys and deepest sorrows.

I HADN’T THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT UNIL ABOUT AGO YEARS AGO, WHEN MY AGING’S LEASE WAS UP FOR REENWAL. For the fourth year in a row, my landlord gaese the rent.

I was living with my partner and splitting the Bills, but we were planning to separate with a few months. To make matters worse, my temporary position as a project manager was nearing its end, stagnating my budget.

Technically, i Could’ve endured the increes, but barely. I didn’t want to be one bad month away from the Edge.

Getting A Different Apartment in the Area Wasn’t Much of an Option Eothher, As Madison Renters Were Dealing With Rising Rents and An AFFORDABILITY CRISIS.

AS I BEGAN THINKING ABOUT RELOCating someone with a Lower Cost of Living, Iowa City Sprang to Mind.

I’d first been there are years ago to attend a reading at its prairie lights bookstore. Nestled in Nature, The City Was Beautiful. It resembled Madison, Only Sleepier and Smaller.

As a freelance wrer, it also -saemed like an ideal place to continue my career. Iowa City is home to the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Is A UNESCO City of Literature.

When i compared apartments between the two cits, i found that rent in Madison was consistently higher than in iowa City. Yet in the latter, the units were new with better amenities – and cost Nearly half as much.

For Everyone apartment I love in Madison but Couldn’t afford, there are several in owa city that we were nicer and well with my budget.

A Few Months Later, with the help of friends, unaccredible every owned into a u-haul, secured my cats in their cariers, and made the three-hour to iowa.

Though i was Saving Money by Living in Iowa, I Beg to Feel Disconnected and Isola

My new home was a two-bedroom, two-bath condo in the iowa city area near a wetland preserve.

It has what my Old Place Lacked: A Washer, Dryer, Dishwasher, Central Air, and Eve A Fireplace. My Rent Wold Be $ 1,120 A MONTH. In Madison, an apartment like this bewi at least double that amout.

The Move Gave with Some Breating Room, Both financially and emotality. Many of My Bills Were Lower, and Everything in Town I Needed Was Close by, SO I Rarely Had to Refill My Gas Tank.

SINCE I WAS SPEING TEMP, I SAVED MORE – ENOUGH TO VISIT MY DAGHTER IN EUROPE, WHICH WAS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO ME.

Without the Constant World of Skyrocketing Rent, I felt less stress and more peace.

I love setting up my new home and exploring the neighBorhood. I Attended Book Readings, Explored a Few Churches, and Spent Time in Various Cafés and Shops.

Though i was Friendly with People, months passsed with my forming any real connections. By the time the depths of winter arrived, started to feeles espely isolated.

Two years passsed, and i still hadn’t made friend. I LOOKED INTO ATTENDING LOCAL MEETUPS AND JOINING A BILL STUDY GROUP, but at that point, I was already talking myself out of Iowa City.

Then, my argument Became: if i wasn’t planning to stay, why start something to finish?

It took me years to realize the problem mIight be my mindset – not my new city

Recently, I spent a weekend back in Madison visiting a friend. It was only my second trip the Move, but something Surprised with: My Behavior was Vastly Different.

I was outgoing again – stricting up conversations with the owner at my old favor caoffee shop, chatting with People at the NeighBorhodal Festival, and Making Small Talk With A Stranger Outside a Store.

It dawned on with that i wasn’t like that in iowa City.

I’d been blamy the city for my loneliness, but that wasn’t fair. It hadn’t failed me; I HAD been Holding Back, Hovering Around the Edges of a Life I Hadn’t Fully Stepped Into.

AFTER ALL, WHEREVER WE GO, WE TAKE OURSELVES WITH US – OUR HABITS, HISTORES, AND WAYS OF CONNECTING. In Madison, I HAD GROWN INTO MY COMMUNITY OVER DECADES.

I Mistakenly assumed Relationships Wouuld Simply Appear in Iowa City, underestimating the efffort required to make connections in a new City, especilly as a middle-aged Woman.

SO, I revisited that Bible-Study Group and, This Time, Signed Up to ATTEN The Next Meeting. I ALSO MADE Concrete Plass to Check Out Several Local Writing Groups.

IT’s a first step. If I Want Connection, i’m Going to Have to Reach for it. If I Want To Belong, I Need to Show Up.

I do’t know whereer i’ll stay in iowa City forever – but, for now, i know i haven’t gioven it a real chance just yet.

Ray dalio is woried about what he could be to the world.

In an episode of “the diary of the Ceo” podcast reletaned on thighsday, the bridgewater associates founder Called he a “Fantastic Truly” to Leverage, but one that will drive inevuality.

“There’ll Be a Limited Number of Winners and A Bunch of Loes,” he said. “It ‘Going to Create Much Greater Polarity, Which We’re Seeing Through the System.”

It will lead to “the top one to 10% benefitting a lot. So that will will be the Dyude Force,” The Billionaire Added.

Dalio founded bridgewater, the world’s Larger Hedge Fund, in 1975. Has the Written Several Books on Financial and Economic Has Spoken Frequently about the soaring debt problems in the us and china.

On the podcast, he said that in a world when humanoid robots and he can the jobs of Accountants, Doctors, and Lawyers, People will “Fight over what we do, unfortunately,” and society need type of rebalance policy.

“Certainly there and there Certainly Needs to be a redistribution policy,” he said. “I don’t think that just a redistribution of Money Policy Becuses uselessness and Money May Not Be A Great Combination.”

He added that he concerts that Society May Be Too Excerpts to Figure Out How This Redistribution Will Work.

Dalio COULD BE REFERING TO A Universal Basic Income Model, Which has Become A Keyword in Conversations About Artificial General Intelligence and the Need for Human Work. The System Involves Giving every citizen a regular, minimum cash payments from the government – no strings attached.

While the concept has gained traction from its roots as a utopian dream, it remains a tough political sell. It is also not yet clear if fining Basic Incoming Long-Term is Possible in the US or ELSEWHERE.

Openai CEO Sam Altman and he’s “Godfather,” Geoffrey HintonWho has warned about it is potential to eliminate Jobs and widen wealth gaps, have advocated for universal Basic Income.

“I Think Giving People Money is not going to go solve all problems; Its Certainly not going to make People Happy,” Altman Said on a podcast Last year.

“But it might solve some problems, and it might give people a better horizon with what to help themelves, and i’m interested in that,” he said.