Children receive 11-plus results
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More than 15,000 of Northern Ireland's primary seven children will find out their 11-plus grade later.
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Some of the new academies set up with help from business have better GCSE results than the schools they replaced.
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Pupils in fee-paying schools scored four times as many A* grades at GCSE this summer than the average for teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) released yesterday.
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Â·  More than 10,000 pupils in poor areas to benefit Â·  English parents may get children's weight warning
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Elementary and middle-school students are making significant improvements in math skills, while their gains in reading are more modest, according to national test results.
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners or in vending machines.
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The education inspectorate Ofsted has listed schools which have had outstanding reports over the past decade.
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Ofsted's annual report also praises the schools that are doing particularly well.
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For nearly six years, the federal government has defined school success mainly by how many students pass state reading and math tests. But a growing number of educators and lawmakers are pushing to give more weight to graduation rates, achievement in science and history and even physical education.
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Children at the top of the pecking order &#151; either by birth or because their older siblings died &#151; score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers or sisters.
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Â· Bursaries not all allocated at eight institutionsÂ· Many youngsters unsure if they are eligible
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NEW YORK  - Just over 1 percent of eleven-year-olds admit to using drugs to boost their athletic performance, a new study from France shows. Furthermore, four years later, 3 percent said they had used doping agents at least once during the previous month.
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U.S. eighth-graders are gaining on their peers across the globe in science and math, but fourth-graders are being passed as their test scores remain stagnant, according to an international review of school performance.
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Children from poorer homes are up to a year behind their more privileged peers by the age of three.
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In the nation&#39;s first comparison of test scores between children in charter schools and regular public schools, students in traditional public schools fared better than similar students in charter schools, The New York Times reported today.
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Head teachers warn the exam system is in trouble because of the number of pupils challenging results.
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HELSINKI, Sep 21 (IPS) - It was a new kind of dawn for some children around  the world Tuesday.