Topic: High School Education

Illinois study cites cost of high school dropouts

CHICAGO (Reuters) - High school dropouts on average receive $1,500 a year more from government than they pay in taxes because they are more likely to get benefits or to be in prison, according to a U.S. study released on Wednesday."Dropping out ...

Three Albuquerque schools locked down due to SWAT situation

(Reuters) - Three Albuquerque schools were under lockdown or were restricting student movements on Monday afternoon "due to a SWAT situation in the area," the Albuquerque Public Schools website said.Garfield Middle School was on lockdown and Valley High School and Griegos Elementary ...

South Koreans start using mobiles at 10: survey

More than 90 percent of schoolchildren in South Korea own a mobile phone and they start using them at an average age of 10 years and fours months, according to a survey published Friday.The study, conducted by a local politician and Dankook ...
Chris Sigler claims he was harassed by his high school principal over wearing a t-shirt in support of a gay-straight clubChris Sigler claims he was harassed by his high school principal over wearing a t-shirt in support of a gay-straight club. Sigler, ...
Chaparral High School has one of the lowest graduation rates in the Clark County School District, a system that itself has a graduation rate among the worst in the country. ¶ The 38-year-old high school, which sits along U.S. 95 near East ...

More N.Korea student refugees arrive in S.Korea

The number of young North Korean student refugees in South Korea has more than tripled in the past five years, according to official data.A total of 1,681 student refugees now live in the South compared to 475 in 2006, the education ministry ...

Bar raised on student expectations

District takes measures to raise graduation rateNo matter how it's calculated, the high school graduation rate in Clark County is abysmal.The class of 2011 saw less than half of its incoming freshman graduate.This school year, however, more seniors might make it across ...

New York City schools to make sex education mandatory

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City public schools will teach mandatory sex education classes to all middle- and high school students, part of a citywide initiative to help reduce teenage pregnancies, officials said on Wednesday.The required classes, the first mandated sex ...

High school student alleges racial bias in valedictorian choice

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - A black high school valedictorian says in a federal lawsuit that her school discriminated against her when they made her share the stage with a white "co-valedictorian" who had a lower grade point average.School officials told Kymberly ...

Woman accuses Oregon Congressman of unwanted sexual encounter

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Democratic Oregon Congressman David Wu has been accused by a teenage girl of an unwanted sexual encounter, and has called the accusation "very serious."News reports said the young woman is the daughter of a campaign donor and high ...
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