Complex sentence: In 1946, Shanker graduated from Stuyvesant High School, where he was the head of the debate team, and went to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1946, Shanker graduated from Stuyvesant High School, where he was the head of the debate team. His academic life continued at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.