--- title: Five Best: Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars description: Treat core subjects like extracurriculars, courts shouldn't use artificial intelligence to sentence criminals and more. canonical: https://time.com/4785855/treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-19T16:00:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:50.275Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4785855/treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/ 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: Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 19, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 19, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**To get students (and teachers) excited about core subjects, treat them like extracurriculars.**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/05/15/to-engage-students-and-teachers-treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/) By Leah Shaffer in _KQED’s MindShift_ **2\.** [**Courts are using artificial intelligence to sentence criminals. Here’s why they should stop.**](https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-criminals-must-stop-now/) By Jason Tashea in _Wired_ **3\.** [**Dishonesty is part of what makes us human. Here’s the science behind why people lie.**](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/lying-hoax-false-fibs-science/?utm%5Fsource=nextdraft) By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee in _National Geographic_ **4\.** [**Unless we share the self-driving cars of the future, traffic will still be terrible.**](https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/18/15604744/self-driving-cars-cities) By David Roberts in _Vox_ **5\.** [**Africa is urbanizing without globalizing — leaving millions disconnected.**](https://capx.co/africa-is-urbanising-without-globalising/) By Daniel Knowles at _CapX_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4785855/treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4785855/treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/"},"headline":"Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars","datePublished":"2017-05-19T16:00:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:50.275Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4785855/treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Urbanization","self-driving cars","AI"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4785855/treat-core-subjects-like-extracurriculars/","name":"Treat Core Subjects Like Extracurriculars"}}]}] ```