They may be taught the basics of interest rates as a mathematical principle, but applied economics is a topic often left until high school for study.
At the top of her class throughout high school and university study, Yesh thrived in competitive environments.
This bodes well for distance learning companies such as Class.com, a 1998 spin-off of a longtime University of Nebraska program called Independent Study High School.
But it would be a mistake to conclude that online courses fulfill the same role in a person's life as a college education, just as it would be an error to equate four years of high school with some online study and a GED exam.
But he had Dickens as bedtime reading, finished high school and went on to study literature at Swarthmore, where after a couple of suspensions he graduated with the best degree.
And it requires replicating innovative ideas that make class feel engaging and relevant -- because most high school dropouts in a recent study said the reason they dropped out was that they weren't interested in class and they weren't motivated to do their work.
After high school, Glasper moved to New York to study music at the New School.
When I arrived as a freshmen, I had absolutely terrible study habits from high school.
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More than half of the 262 high school seniors who participated in the study were "excessively sleepy, " according to a commonly used scale that gauges how likely a person is to doze off during everyday activities such as reading, watching TV, or sitting in a traffic jam.
Faris teamed up with CNN's "AC360" in 2011 to study bullying at a high school in Long Island, New York.
Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.
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According to a 2006 study (PDF), 22% of high school dropouts in the United States leave school to care for a family member.
Though the study was relatively small and limited to a single high school, experts say the findings likely reflect the experience of American adolescents as a whole.
In a landmark study, the Brookings Institution found that young adults who finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children have just a 2% chance of falling into poverty and a 74% chance of ending up in the middle class.
This can be valuable experience and, indeed, one study found that 78.3% of senior executives competed on high school athletic teams.
Between 1972 and 2003, the number of students who jumped straight from high school to college increased to 64% from 49%, according to a 2005 study by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Not only did U.S. educators play a leading role in designing and carrying out the study, but the results, which showed U.S. high school students lagging behind those in other industrial countries, attracted widespread attention in the news media and in educational circles.
Thanks to the information revolution, the rewards for university study are growing: in 1997 college graduates earned 77% more than high school graduates, up from a differential of 58% in 1975.
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