What is one thing you would do to improve high schools?
Allow some of the students to accelerate through their high school years; thus to begin to earn college credit early. Do not slow them down... Although this is in - place in some schools; it needs to be optimized in all schools, so students can strive to do this. This would inevitably create the drive for students to maximize grades and drive to enter college...
The significant spin-off from this is more scholarship money distributed, reducing the cost of higher education for many...
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