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Students propose changes to new graduation rules - Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A group of high school students today proposed dramatic changes to the state’s tough new graduation requirements that would create separate routes to a high school diploma based on...
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,...
50 Student Teams Wanted for World's Largest Rocket Competition - Wednesday, September 02, 2009
ARLINGTON - Registration for the
world's largest rocket competition, the Team America Rocketry Challenge, is open to 750 student teams in grades 7-12 from any U.S. school, home school...
Student, 19, pleads guilty to making threats in UBC lockdowns - Saturday, July 05, 2008
METRO VANCOUVER - A 19-year-old University of B.C. student who was a math and biology whiz in high school has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from two campus lockdowns at UBC last...
Black students in South performing better on tests - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
ATLANTA - A new government study shows black students in many Southern states are improving test scores in math and reading, but not enough to narrow an achievement gap with their white...
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...
Student hacker drops out of Carleton - Friday, September 26, 2008
A Carleton University student has quit school after being hit with a fine and other sanctions for hacking into a university computer to steal identification and financial data from 32...
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...
nnovation in Danger: Not Enough Students Pursuing Engineering Careers - Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Thought Leaders from the IEEE Discuss Current Issues in Education, from Engaging Our Nation's Youth to Encouraging, Attracting and Retaining Engineering Talent
-- The trend is alarming,...
No easy answers to nation's student dropout problem - Saturday, October 25, 2008
We heard a common theme. Dropouts are a national crisis, the problem is not something schools are responsible for entirely, nor is it something they can fix entirely.
And, as I learned...
