On the education front, I think we need to drastically re-tool.
I'm of a mind that kids get enough "general" education by grade 10 (I know I haven't used anything I learned in most grade 11 or 12 classes - why did I spend all that time sweating over chemistry or quadratic equations FFS?).
I think it would make sense to convert grades 11 and 12 to the first 2 years of a 4 year undergraduate, so that kids can get a head start and be done their undergrad degree by the age of 20, and potentially a master's degree by 22 or 23.
That's not to say kids would head off to university at 16 - just that the first 2 years of university curricula would be completed in high school, with the latter two years completed at university. The Advance Placement programs at some schools already do this to a degree, but I'd go way further than that.
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