Chelsea Waite

What a good life means is defined on their own terms.

What a good life means is defined on their own terms.

What a good life means is defined on their own terms.

Longhorn Nation. Hook them. B-L-U.

Longhorn Nation. Hook them. B-L-U.

Longhorn Nation. Hook them. B-L-U.

Where we research how do education systems become better and sort of evolve and in some ways remake themselves to better serve every student in America.

Where we research how do education systems become better and sort of evolve and in some ways remake themselves to better serve every student in America.

Where we research how do education systems become better and sort of evolve and in some ways remake themselves to better serve every student in America.

When high schools kind of first started in the U.S., they were not universal and they were really sort of designed for elites, largely white, male, middle and upper class students. Students who would go to high school as a way to kind of get them to higher education in order to then go into these leadership roles in society.

When high schools kind of first started in the U.S., they were not universal and they were really sort of designed for elites, largely white, male, middle and upper class students. Students who would go to high school as a way to kind of get them to higher education in order to then go into these leadership roles in society.

When high schools kind of first started in the U.S., they were not universal and they were really sort of designed for elites, largely white, male, middle and upper class students. Students who would go to high school as a way to kind of get them to higher education in order to then go into these leadership roles in society.

Then in the 1910s to 1940s, there was a big high school movement that basically made high schools kind of like mass education for everyone. And the idea there is that we have a responsibility as a society to make sure that young people are prepared for the world that they move into as adults. And for some of them, that might mean college.

Then in the 1910s to 1940s, there was a big high school movement that basically made high schools kind of like mass education for everyone. And the idea there is that we have a responsibility as a society to make sure that young people are prepared for the world that they move into as adults. And for some of them, that might mean college.

Then in the 1910s to 1940s, there was a big high school movement that basically made high schools kind of like mass education for everyone. And the idea there is that we have a responsibility as a society to make sure that young people are prepared for the world that they move into as adults. And for some of them, that might mean college.

For others, it might mean they're sort of better working with their hands and they should be in a different kind of job or career. And as time went on, it became very clear that who got sort of identified to go to college and who was getting sort of identified by let's like put you into a vocational program. It became very clear that there was major inequality in who got access to what path.

For others, it might mean they're sort of better working with their hands and they should be in a different kind of job or career. And as time went on, it became very clear that who got sort of identified to go to college and who was getting sort of identified by let's like put you into a vocational program. It became very clear that there was major inequality in who got access to what path.

For others, it might mean they're sort of better working with their hands and they should be in a different kind of job or career. And as time went on, it became very clear that who got sort of identified to go to college and who was getting sort of identified by let's like put you into a vocational program. It became very clear that there was major inequality in who got access to what path.

Feels weird for a number of reasons. Totally. Take your dad's experience and then compare it to sort of how you described your experience, and I think that's a great representation of what changed from maybe the 1950s to 70s all the way to the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, where there was really this recognition that we actually need to sort of push for college as the North Star for every student.

Feels weird for a number of reasons. Totally. Take your dad's experience and then compare it to sort of how you described your experience, and I think that's a great representation of what changed from maybe the 1950s to 70s all the way to the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, where there was really this recognition that we actually need to sort of push for college as the North Star for every student.