Alt-School Gives Students Second Chance
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This chemistry lesson takes a strong stomach: It starts with grinding up fish in a big blender.
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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. Students at a suburban Detroit high school are getting a second chance to see how space affects their science project.
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By Matt Paolelli Daily Herald Correspondent  For parents of middle-school and high-school students, it's an all-too-familiar scene.
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Shannon McClintock, a ninth-grader at Scripps Ranch High, did well performing science experiments put before her in a national competition this week in Maryland.
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Schools are under orders to make sure no child is left behind, but that can be tough to do when so many children are moving. At least four in 10 students change schools one or more times by the time they are 17, on top of their normal progression from elementary and middle schools to high school.
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By Rupa Shenoy  rshenoy@@dailyherald.com  It's a question that defeats many an adult: How can one person make a difference?  But when a sixth grade elementary class from West Chicago tackled the question, the students came up with a nationally award- winning answer.
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Vocational courses are not just for underachievers, Ofsted warns as it urges schools to offer more choices.
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Students learning English in the co-ed schools that have proliferated since 2001 view the US skeptically.
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Â· Few institutions pass admission benchmarks Â· Russell Group blames low achievement at school
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The secondary school curriculum in England is re-shaped to be more relevant to modern learners.
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Strolling between classes at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Blake Ross looks like any other bleary-eyed sophomore. Few would guess that the laptop-carrying
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Here was the idea: Students from low-income inner-city backgrounds could perform as well as better-off suburban students &#151; if they had a school that gave them proper support.
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An English comprehensive is taking in pupils from overseas for its International Baccalaureate course.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Now educators are starting to look at what needs to be done to prepare students to compete in a new global economy.
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A guide helps high schoolers find safe, tolerant colleges.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.