Instead, upon arriving in the United States from Uganda, East Africa, I attended Simon's Rock EarlyCollege, the nation's first "early college" for highschool aged students.
And that's why we'll foster what are called earlycollegehigh schools that allow students to earn a highschool diploma and an associate's degree or college credit at the same time.
The limited options for women who did work, and the postwar propaganda about the glories of homemaking, convinced the young women who were graduating from highschool and college in the early 1960s that once you married, the good life was the stay-at-home life.
If the percentage of highschool graduates going to college shortly after graduation dropped from the current 70 percent to the 50 percent who went from highschool to college in the early 1960s, as many as 3.5 million additional young people could be contributing to the economy.