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New York Students Improve in Reading and Math - Monday, June 23, 2008
Reading and math scores for New York students in grades three through eight improved significantly across the state this year, with particularly sizeable gains in the large urban areas,...
CPS students earn record $157 million in college - Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Students from this spring's Chicago Public Schools graduating class collected nearly $157 million in college scholarships, nearly twice the $82 million earned the year before and a district...
US schools experiment with paying students - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
WASHINGTON- Friday is payday at KIPP DC: KEY Academy, and some sixth-grade girls gather at the makeshift school store trying to decide how to spend their hard-earned money.
They received...
At 15, Snohomish student is too young to drive, but not to attend the UW - Thursday, June 26, 2008
SNOHOMISH -- The last-day-of-school assembly was largely about transitions: from grade to grade and school to school.
Half the students would remain at Snohomish High and half would...
Revamped Spruce High focused on student achievement - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The hallways at Spruce High School didn't sound typical for a first day of classes Monday. They were quiet. Principal Lucy Davila Hakemack's heels click-clacked smartly as she walked...
Students take on more debt - Monday, November 24, 2008
Higher college costs and steep losses in college savings plans are forcing students and their parents to borrow more to earn bachelor’s degrees.
Last year’s seniors, facing increasing...
100 naked college students run through campus - Thursday, June 19, 2008
MANILA, Philippines - Members of a fraternity at the University of the Philippines held their annual ritual of running naked on campus six months early on Wednesday — by official request...
Middle school critical to students' success in high school - Thursday, June 26, 2008
More than 100,000 California students quit high school each year, but the path toward dropping out begins long before high school. Three new studies from the California Dropout Research...
Campus-Wide Tegrity Campus Scores High Marks With Students - Wednesday, September 17, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, announced that it will unveil the results of an important study highlighting the...
