--- title: Stop Scheduling High School Like Fifth Grade description: Scheduling high-schoolers like adults, how states can help people save for retirement, Gallup leaving the daily polling game and more. canonical: https://time.com/4064394/stop-scheduling-high-school-like-fifth-grade/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-07T16:01:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:20.346Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Let's Stop Scheduling High School Like Fifth Grade og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4064394/stop-scheduling-high-school-like-fifth-grade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Let's Stop Scheduling High School Like Fifth Grade twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Let's Stop Scheduling High School Like Fifth Grade by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 7, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 7, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**To truly prepare high schoolers for higher ed, stop scheduling them like 5th graders.**](http://hechingerreport.org/want-high-schoolers-to-succeed-stop-giving-them-fifth-grade-schedules/) By Nick Stoneman in the Hechinger Report **2\.** [**Americans aren’t saving for retirement. States want to help.**](http://www.npr.org/2015/10/06/446300013/states-to-workers-let-us-help-you-build-your-retirement-savings) By Ina Jaffe at NPR **3\.** [**Think you’re sick of politics already? Gallup is giving up on political ‘horse race’ polling.**](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/gallup-poll-2016-pollsters-214493) By Steven Shepard in Politico **4\.** [**Here’s the final controversial test refugees must pass to gain asylum in Europe.**](http://qz.com/508785/these-companies-use-language-to-determine-which-migrants-get-to-stay-in-europe-but-does-it-work/) By Aamna Mohdin in Quartz **5\.** [**Can prisoners benefit from yoga?**](http://www.vice.com/read/shavasana-behind-bars-962) By Jessica Rizzo in Vice  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4064394/stop-scheduling-high-school-like-fifth-grade/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4064394/stop-scheduling-high-school-like-fifth-grade/"},"headline":"Let's Stop Scheduling High School Like Fifth Grade","datePublished":"2015-10-07T16:01:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:20.346Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4064394/stop-scheduling-high-school-like-fifth-grade/","keywords":["Innovation","High School","Refugees","Retirement","yoga","Polling"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4064394/stop-scheduling-high-school-like-fifth-grade/","name":"Let's Stop Scheduling High School Like Fifth Grade"}}]}] ```