Stories tagged "highschool" - Page 2

Consider this: • Students of color are two to five times as likely to drop out of school as their white peers. • 50 percent of white students entered a Minnesota college after graduating from high school last year, while 35 percent Latino students

Teenagers at a school in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary saw more of their teacher in a two-minute strip tease than I saw of most of my teachers over my entire high school career. Make that more than I wanted to see of my teachers over my whole high school career.

Dude, cut her loose, find new friends and get yourself a new girlfriend. One day, you will thank me.

How a demotion might be a benefit.

A mother writes about going through the boarding school search with her daughter.

Your child is less likely to graduate from high school than you were, and most states are doing little to hold schools accountable, according to a study by a children's advocacy group.

It was in Arlington, in the state of Texas that the seriousness of controlling teen drinking came to light, when a 16 year old girl reported that she was raped at an off-campus drinking party attended by around 75 students at an Arlington High School.

A primer on how you too can be cool in high school.

When openly gay Bill Konigsberg wrote his first novel, Out of the Pocket, he had, like most authors in a similar situation, a day job – in this case, as a sportswriter at The Associated Press.

Tuesday night's forum in the high school cafeteria gave parents a chance to ask questions and mental health officials a chance to shed light on a baffling subject in a grieving community. Three teenage boys from Southeast Polk killed themselves within fiv