High Schools Try a Scaled-Down Approach
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Thinking small may be the next big thing at American high schools. From Oregon to New York, school districts are scaling down to combat problems that are very big indeed: high dropout rates, sinking test scores and low attendance.
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As students learn about energy efficiency, their school buildings increasingly practice it
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As competition gets more fierce and pressure more intense, many schools are phasing out class ranking systems. But not everyone thinks that's such a good idea
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.
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For an increasing number of public schools, the formula for a better education requires a little arithmetic: divide the girls from the boys.
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Parental choice in schools pushes up standards but could increase social division, research suggests.
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How one state is re-engineering its schools for the new century
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More high school students than ever are studying physics.
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There is a warning that independent schools are stretching their lead among A-level students.
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When students and administrators face off over academic policy, it's a safe bet which side will usually win. But a student uprising at McLean High School this fall over an anti-cheating initiative had an unusual outcome.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Health experts are trying to move the nation's battle of the bulge to an important new front: the schools.
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Teenagers are to be taught how to look after their own finances, in a curriculum shake-up.
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One maverick state devised its own education strategy that bucks the trend toward high-stakes tests and federal control
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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There has been a leap in truancy figures for secondary pupils in England, despite a big campaign to clamp down on the problem.
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By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 12--It seems like an average school setting: teenagers wearing jeans and T-shirts, sitting at tables, writing vigorously on college-ruled paper and looking up every now and then to chat with each other.
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As head coach of girls&#39; basketball at Ensley High School in Birmingham, Ala., Roderick Jackson felt that his squad had less access to the gym and training equipment than the boys&#39; team did.