Drug use and sexually transmitted diseases among American teenagers persist at alarming rates. And U.S. teens aren't the scholars some of their international peers are.
"We have to end adolescence as a social experiment," Newt Gingrich writes in BusinessWeek. "We tried it. It failed. It's time to move on ... Children rapidly assuming the roles and responsibilities of adults would yield enormous benefit to society."
Students who finish high school a year or two early, the former House Speaker says, should qualify for a year or two of free college tuition.
What do you think? Fair?
"We have to end adolescence as a social experiment," Newt Gingrich writes in BusinessWeek. "We tried it. It failed. It's time to move on ... Children rapidly assuming the roles and responsibilities of adults would yield enormous benefit to society."
Students who finish high school a year or two early, the former House Speaker says, should qualify for a year or two of free college tuition.
What do you think? Fair?