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 High School Seniors: 
 Skip College 

Taking a year off makes sense for most

Nov 7, 09 10:57 AM CST
(Newser) - A private consultant who makes a living helping high school seniors get into college has some unexpected advice for them: Don't do it. Take at least a year off instead, writes Gwyeth T. Smith. Yes, the idea of the "gap year" has been around a while, but the lousy... More »

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high school • college admissions • higher education • high school graduates • college applications

 SF Rape Victim: 'Let the 
 Anger Cause Change' 

'We realize people are angry about this,' says teen

Nov 4, 09 6:30 AM CST
(Newser) - A 15-year-old student who was gang-raped as bystanders did nothing delivered a message of peace to a rally at her high school last night. "Violence is always the wrong choice," the girl said in a message read by her pastor. "We realize people are angry about this.... More »

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California • high school • rape • Richmond • gang rape

 Rape Victim's Pals 
 Rip Cops, Guards 

Six now arrested in two-hour attack

Oct 30, 09 2:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angry friends of a gang-rape victim yesterday blasted useless security guards and cops at their Bay Area high school who failed to prevent the two-hour attack amid a horde of curious onlookers. Some 15 young men were hanging outside the Richmond school the night of homecoming before the attack. Neither... More »

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California • high school • rape • Richmond • sexual assault • gang rape • Bay Area

Five Youths Held in 'Barbaric' Calif. Gang Rape

Victim knew one 15-year-old assailant, was drinking with them

Oct 28, 09 11:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco-area cops have arrested three more young men in the savage gang rape, beating, and robbery of a 15-year-old girl outside her homecoming dance while dozens more watched. Five youths are being held, ranging from a 15-year-old boy who knew the victim to a 21-year-old. The girl was drinking... More »

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California • high school • San Francisco • crime • rape • Bay Area • Richmond • sexual assault • beatings

School Volunteering
Stresses Parents Out

Pressure to help out a source of anxiety for moms and dads

Oct 15, 09 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - With school budgets slashed because of the weak economy, parents are feeling more pressure than ever to volunteer. About 64% of parents surveyed by Harris Interactive say they believe it's more important than ever to pitch in, with 53%—far more than last year— saying they planned to do just... More »

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high school • parents • recession • volunteer • elementary school • teacher

Gretzky, Montana Sons Hobnob on High School Team

Sporting legends cheer on their offspring at California's Oaks Christian

Oct 14, 09 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - California's Oaks Christian is ranked the fifth best high school team in the country but the sporting icons in the stands often get more attention than the players. The '49ers superstar Joe Montana and NHL legend Wayne Gretzky regularly turn up to watch their sons, quarterback Nick Montana and his... More »

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California • high school • Wayne Gretzky • Joe Montana • Will Smith • celebrity parents • high school football • fathers

 Daredevil 
 Stunts 
 Crippling 
 Cheerleaders 

Serious injuries skyrocket as performers take to the air

Oct 13, 09 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - American high school and college cheerleaders are losing teeth, breaking backs and becoming paralyzed in increasingly dangerous stunts that agonized parents and experts say should be stopped. "I didn't know that they were throwing her up in the air.  Why would the school allow that?" asked one stunned... More »

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high school • health • college • accident • paralysis • cheerleading • male cheerleaders • cheerleaders

 White House: 
 Beating Vid 
 'Chilling' 

Obama prepares to pitch Chitown Olympics as city reels from murder

Oct 1, 09 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Barack Obama prepares to make a pitch to hold the Olympics in his hometown, the White House is decrying a "chilling" videotaped beating death of a teenager in the same city. It's one of the most shocking things "you can ever see," White House spokesman Robert... More »

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high school • Chicago • crime • White House • murder • gang violence • videotape • beatings • teenager • videotaped beating • Derrion Albert

 Chicago Student's 
 Beating Death 
 Caught on Tape 

Police beef up patrols after savage gang melee

Sep 28, 09 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago police are stepping up patrols today at a high school where a 16-year-old honor student's gruesome beating death in a gang melee was captured on video. Students scream in horror as Derrion Albert crumples to the ground and covers his head in vain as he's repeatedly pummeled with wooden... More »

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high school • Chicago • crime • murder • gangs • video • death • gangsters • honor student • Derrion Albert

Hazing 'Slut List' Rattles
NJ High School

Administrators try to crack down on mean girls' ritual

Sep 24, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Parents and administrators are trying to crush a rite-of-passage "slut list" targeting freshmen in a top academically ranked New Jersey High School. The hazing isn't being perpetrated by adolescent boys, but by senior girls, who write and circulate degrading comments about the  incoming 13-year-old girls at Milburn High. And... More »

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high school • New Jersey • Whorelore • hazing • slut • Milburn High School

 Best HS Flicks Since 
 John Hughes' Heyday 

Track Flick and making 'fetch' happen, anyone?

Sep 20, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hard as it is to believe, John Hughes made his last high school-centric film in 1987. Luckily, the 22 years since haven't lacked for flicks that chronicle some part of those awkward, wonderful 4 years. Christopher Borrelli of the Chicago Tribune lists the 10 movies that do it best: ... More »

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entertainment • high school • film • list • movies • Mean Girls • John Hughes • Hoop Dreams • Raising Victor Vargas • Election (film) • Dazed and Confused

OPINION

In Back-to-School Hindsight, John Hughes Looks Terrible

The guy probably ruined your life

Sep 17, 09 8:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - When the world rushed to eulogize John Hughes, Christopher Borrelli of the Chicago Tribune held off. He wanted to watch Hughes’ movies again. “I had suspected these films might be disturbing in hindsight,” he writes. “I had no idea how disturbing.” There’s drunk driving,... More »

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entertainment • high school • movies • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • John Hughes

Facebook Sparks
'Retrosexual' Romance

Finding long-lost love just got a whole easier—and more high-tech

Sep 13, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to reconnecting with a long-lost love, high school reunions are so 20th century. Many instead are turning to Facebook to track down a former flame, Time reports. “Facebook makes it easier for you to take that first step of finding someone again," says a Columbia... More »

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high school • Facebook • love • Fling • retrosexual

Analysis

School Speech Uproar Shows Country Divided

In addressing kids, Bush 41 didn't have problems like Obama's

Sep 4, 09 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - When George HW Bush gave a televised address to a public school in 1991 and urged schools around the country to show it in class, no one much cared. When President Obama announced plans to do the same, he drew outrage and comparisons to Chairman Mao. That’s America in... More »

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education • Barack Obama • high school • Department of Education • partisanship • George HW Bush • polarized • Obama administration

UPDATED

White House Backs Off on Lesson Plan

Teachers won't ask kids to say 'how they can help the president'

Sep 3, 09 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - In response to criticism over a speech President Obama plans to deliver to schoolchildren Tuesday, the White House will make the text of the speech available for review by teachers and school officials a day earlier, the Dallas Morning News reports. The administration also changed a widely criticized part of... More »

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education • Barack Obama • high school • Obama administration • President Obama

LA Mayor Wants Outsiders to Run 'Failing' Schools

Teachers union says plan will lead to 'chaos in education system'

Aug 12, 09 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mayor of Los Angeles wants to allow outside groups to place bids for control of hundreds of the city’s schools, the LA Times reports. Antonia Villaraigosa’s education reforms would allow bidding by charter-school organizations and other education nonprofits to run 50 schools scheduled to open over the... More »

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education • California • high school • Los Angeles • Antonio Villaraigosa • reform • charter school

DC to Offer STD Tests
to All Students

Pilot program found that 13% of youths had chlamydia, gonorrhea

Aug 5, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - All DC high school students will be offered testing for sexually-transmitted diseases, the Washington Post reports. The move follows a pilot program at eight schools last year in which 13% of 3,000 students tested positive for STDs, mostly chlamydia and gonorrhea. The new plan says students must watch a... More »

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high school • AIDS • HIV • STD • chlamydia • gonorrhea • Washington, DC • testing • sexually transmitted diseases

(Newser) - Funny, goofy Lisa Kudrow lived through hell making friends—back in high school. "I used to cry every night," she tells the Telegraph. "With high school, for many people, it’s just a case of trying to keep breathing and getting through it." The former Friends ... More »

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high school • teenager • Friends • Lisa Kudrow • adolescence • television program

'Snake Oil' College Advisers Can Run $40K

Counselors often embellish record,
don't need licenses

Jul 19, 09 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Independent college counselors promise to use their admissions know-how to get students into the best schools. But there’s no way to evaluate their sometimes extravagant claims, and some charge more than a year’s tuition at many colleges, the New York Times reports. Still, business is booming in the... More »

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high school • college admissions • parents • college • university • students • counseling

Ill. Parents Seek to Ban Award-Winning Novel

Language, sex in Alexie book inappropriate for high schoolers

Jun 22, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents at an Illinois high school are trying to get Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian taken off the summer reading list, and out of the school’s library, the Chicago Tribune reports. “I can’t imagine anyone finding this book appropriate for 13-... More »

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high school • censorship • book • banned • Sherman Alexie

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