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Georgia School System Loses US Accreditation

Atlanta-area district becomes first in nearly 40 years stripped of recognition

Aug 29, 08 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Georgia school system has become the country's first in almost 40 years to have its accreditation yanked, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Clayton County parents and students were devastated by the move, blamed on the district's "dysfunctional" school board. An exodus of students is expected to accelerate. More »

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education • high school • Atlanta • Georgia • school districts • school board

Army School Gets Dropouts Ready to Serve

Military needs more eligible recruits
to fill its ranks

Aug 27, 08 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Army today opened its first prep school to prepare high school dropouts for military service, the AP reports. With wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not enough eligible recruits, the Army wants unqualified prospects to earn their GEDs. "Only three out of every 10 people of military... More »

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high school • Army recruiting • US military • US Army • military recruits • Iraq war • Afghanistan war

Teen Gunned Down by Classmate at Tenn. HS

Suspect is in custody; Knoxville's Central HS placed under lockdown

Aug 21, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(AP) - A student fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate during a dispute today at a Tennessee high school. Other teens watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor. "This wasn't a shooting that was a random act," a Knoxville policeman said. "It was... More »

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high school • school shooting • Tennessee • cafeteria • shooting • gun violence • Knoxville

Give Me an
O! U! C! H!

Cheerleading proves more dangerous
than all other girls' sports combined

Aug 12, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cheerleading accounts for more catastrophic injuries than every other girls’ sport combined, LiveScience reports. Of the 103 fatal, debilitating, or serious injuries female high school athletes incurred between 1982 and 2007, 67 occurred while cheerleading. Participants in the next-most-dangerous activity, gymnastics, sustained just nine such injuries. The proportions for college... More »

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high school • high school sports • sports injuries • cheerleading

PSAT Will Expand College Testing Stress to Jr. High

Earlier exam will help students prep, College Board says

Aug 8, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The College Board will start offering the PSAT to eighth-graders in 2010, the LA Times reports. Students normally take the exam, a precursor of the SAT, in 10th or 11th grade, but kids have been signing up earlier in recent years. Critics charge that the College Board is pushing the... More »

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high school • SAT • college admissions • college board • middle school • college preparation • junior high • PSAT

OPINION

 Teen TV That Flunked College

10 shows that fizzled after high school

Aug 6, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heading off to university is typically viewed as an accomplishment, but one blog contends that most TV shows tank when their characters take this major life step. College on the Record lists the top 10 series muddled by matriculation:
  1. Boy Meets World
  2. Saved by the Bell: The College Years
... More »

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television • high school • college • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • 90210

Transsexual Thai Students Get Own Toilets

Up to 20% of rural high school's boys would rather be girls

Jul 30, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A high school in rural Thailand has given its many transgender students their own restroom, the BBC reports. Situated between the boys' and girls' rooms, the room has a half male/half female figure painted on the door. Inside, effeminate teenage boys preen. As many as  20% of the school's male... More »

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high school • Thailand • transexualism • restrooms • transgender • Transvestite

 Girls=Boys in Math, Says Study

Gender gap discovered in the 1970s has been closed, researchers say

Jul 24, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Girls are just as good as boys at math, says an exhaustive study of 7 million test scores from elementary through high school students, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The findings, to be published tomorrow in Science, are at odds with 30-year-old studies—and a view entrenched in... More »

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high school • college • test score • gender gap • gender stereotypes • scientific study • mathematics

Pregnancy
Pact Was Real, Says Principal

Defends comments after mayor says
there's no proof

Jun 27, 08 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The principal of a Massachusetts high school who said 17 girls got pregnant at his school as part of a pact isn't backing down from his claim, the AP reports. The principal said he gleaned the information through a nurse practitioner, “verbal staff reports,” and “student/staff chatter.... More »

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high school • Massachusetts • Gloucester • teen pregnancy

High School Test Cheat
Could Face 38 Years

Teen plotted to boost grades for college admission

Jun 18, 08 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A student at an Orange County high school faces 69 felony charges and a possible 38 years in prison for a scheme to alter grades, the Los Angeles Times reports. The locked-up 18-year-old is accused of breaking into his school repeatedly, hacking into computers, and changing test scores and records... More »

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high school • Orange County • cheating • tests • high school students

Pitcher Gains Infamy After Hitting Ump

Did high school hurler miss on purpose in championship game?

Jun 9, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - If not for one pitch, Georgia’s high school championship game would be a topic of conversation in only a few places. Instead, the one-sided May 31 contest is getting nationwide buzz. With the cameras rolling, Stephens County High pitcher Cody Martin made it a contest to remember: Martin zinged... More »

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high school • umpire • pitcher • high school baseball • Cody Martin

Biology Class Is No Cut-Up for US Kids

More pupils duck dissections by doing them virtually

Jun 1, 08 7:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - More biology students are ducking icky frog and fetal pig dissections by doing them on computers, the AP reports. Animal rights activists, thrilled that 14 states let kids skip dissections, are helping get the interactive programs to schools. One West Virginia group donated software to a high school that spends... More »

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high school • animal rights • frogs • virtual imaging • computer • dissection

 Energy Drinks Linked
 to Risk-Taking 

Two studies find increased incidence of risky sexual behavior, binge drinking

May 27, 08 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beside nausea and stomach trouble, there’s a new reason to be concerned when you see your teen slamming four Red Bulls in an afternoon, the New York Times reports: risky behavior. A study in the Journal of American College Health links use of energy drinks with risky behavior such... More »

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high school • caffeine • energy drink • teen sex • teen drinking • risky behavior • risk-taking

Big Brother Indeed: Orwell Prank Ends in Arrests

Takeover PA system leads to sit-in protest at Mass. high school

May 22, 08 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - What appears to be a senior prank that saw students commandeer the public-address system at a Massachusetts high school to read George Orwell (or perhaps Fidel Castro) ended with arrests and protests yesterday, the New Bedford Standard-Times reports. More »

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education • high school • Fidel Castro • protests • George Orwell • civil disobedience • sit-in

 The Nation's Best High Schools 

Newsweek's new criteria value APs over grades

May 20, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rather than GPAs or graduation rates, new research suggests, participation in AP and IB programs is the best indicator of academic success in college, even if the student does not do well in the advanced classes. In light of that, Newsweek presents the nation’s 100 best public high schools,... More »

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high school • Newsweek • list • school • college preparation

Mich. Lax Team Suspended
After Bum Invite

Booted for mooning would-be prom date a bare-butted question

May 1, 08 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Michigan high school student thought up a novel way to ask for a prom date. He and 12 lacrosse teammates spelled out "Will You Go to the Prom With Me?" on their butts and mooned the girl at a match, reports the Ann Arbor News. The girl said... More »

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high school • lacrosse • high school sports • Proms • high school students

 Survey: Poor LA Students Scared, Depressed

Youths shows symptoms of clinical depression

Apr 26, 08 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - High-school students in poor LA neighborhoods fear for their safety, show signs of clinical depression, and say the district does a laughable job preparing them for college, the Los Angeles Times reports. A survey of thousands of students from south LA showed more than half felt hopeless and helpless. "... More »

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high school • depression • Los Angeles • South Central LA • high school students

Another Teen Nabbed
in Columbine-Like Plot

16-year-old sought gun used in Colorado killings

Apr 25, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Indiana 16-year-old plotted a Columbine-style mass killing on September 11 and even sought the same pistol used in that attack, the AP reports. The high school student faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder when he appears in court today. Police found 100 knives in his home and say... More »

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high school • explosives • Indiana • school shooting • Columbine school massacre • murder plot • guns

SC Teen Faces WMD Charge, Life Sentence

'New Columbine' plan is federal case

Apr 22, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ryan Schallenberger, the South Carolina teenager whose Columbine-style attack police say they foiled yesterday, will be charged with a federal count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, the AP reports. The charge, stemming from the 10 pounds of explosives discovered by Schallenberger’s parents yesterday, carries a... More »

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high school • South Carolina • school shooting • bomb • federal prison • shooting rampage • Columbine school massacre

 SC Teen Busted in
 'New Columbine' Plot 

Student plotted school suicide bombing

Apr 21, 08 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Carolina police have foiled a student's suicide bomb attack on a high school, timed to coincide with the ninth anniversary of the Columbine school massacre, officials said. The 18-year-old senior was arrested after his parents discovered 10 pounds of explosive chemicals, a year-long journal  and detailed plans for a... More »

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high school • Columbine school massacre • Ryan Shallenberger • Virginia Tech massacre • ammonium nitrate

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