--- title: Five Best: An Extra Year of High School Can Help Students description: An extra year of high school can set students up for success, fasting may lead to a longer life and more. canonical: https://time.com/5037907/an-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-success/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-27T17:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:19.417Z article:section: Ideas og:title: An Extra Year of High School Can Set Students Up For Success og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5037907/an-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-success/ 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: An Extra Year of High School Can Set Students Up For Success 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 --- # An Extra Year of High School Can Set Students Up For Success by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 27, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 27, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**An extra year of high school can set students up for success.**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/06/26/how-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-college-success/) By Katrina Schwartz in _Mindshift_ **2\.** [**Fasting may lead to a longer life.**](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/11/intermittent-fasting-may-be-center-of-increasing-lifespan/) By Karen Feldscher in the _Harvard Gazette_ **3\.** [**Social media might be able to diagnose illnesses — at a cost.**](https://www.wired.com/story/social-networks-may-one-day-diagnose-disease-but-at-a-cost/) By Sam Volchenboum in _WIRED_ **4\.** [**Bilingual children are better able to recognize voices.**](http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2017/june/bilingual-children-are-better-at-recognizing-voices.html) By _NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development_ **5\.** [**Do we want robots to give us unconditional love?**](http://www.thedailybeast.com/can-your-robot-love-you) By Merritt Baer in the _Daily Beast_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: An Extra Year of High School Can Help Students ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5037907/an-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-success/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5037907/an-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-success/"},"headline":"An Extra Year of High School Can Set Students Up For Success","datePublished":"2017-11-27T17:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:19.417Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5037907/an-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-success/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","Innovation","Education","robots","language","health"],"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/5037907/an-extra-year-of-high-school-can-set-students-up-for-success/","name":"An Extra Year of High School Can Set Students Up For Success"}}]}] ```