Topic: Elementary And High School Education
Cigarette and alcohol use by US teenagers are at their lowest point since the mid-1970s, but marijuana use remains steady, according to the findings of a national survey released Wednesday.Some 18.7 percent of grade 12 high school students, typically aged 17 or ...
Program helping plan best routes for walking and biking to schoolOn a recent morning before school, a parent volunteer watched as a car door flew open, blocking the sidewalk directly in the path of a student on a bike who was barely ...
A bomb attack on a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed a policeman, wounded eight others and destroyed a wall, police said.The remote-controlled bomb was planted at the outer wall of the government-run middle school in the outskirts of Mardan ...
Metro Police officer Richard Burris is sparing no sympathy for the seventh-graders packed inside a Bailey Middle School classroom.Days earlier, Burris had inconspicuously watched afternoon dismissal at the school. And he wasn't happy with what he saw: Kicking. Backpack-snatching. Paperwork-smacking.The scene is ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hawaii was the only state in the nation where students boosted scores in both math and reading at fourth and eighth grade levels over the last two years, according to a report released on Tuesday.Math tests showed steady improvements ...
Liberty High football coach Rich Muraco walked into an almost empty locker room to find a young player from the school's feeder program gazing in awe at the equipment and uniforms hanging in the varsity team lockers.Muraco, seeing the look on the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The birth rate for U.S. teenage girls declined for a second year in 2009, while the rate of drug use among eighth graders edged higher, according to the latest government report on child well-being.The report, which serves as a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The birth rate for teenage girls declined for a second year in 2009 while the rate of drug use among eighth graders edged higher, according to the latest government report on child well-being.The report, which serves as a status ...
Nearly 900 secondary schools in England must raise standards so that at least 50 percent of pupils get five A*-C grades at GCSE, Education Secretary Michael Gove is set to announce.Gove will outline the new targets at the National College for School ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most people could not spell "cymotrichous" with a dictionary, but a 14 year-old girl from Pennsylvania, Sukanya Roy, spelled the word on Thursday to win a marathon-length 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee.Roy, participating in the competition for the third ...
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