Pa. Boy, 13, Scores Perfect 1600 on SAT
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MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - A 13-year-old boy has scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT, a standardized test usually given to college-bound high school seniors. "I was pretty surprised and happy," said Lee Kennedy-Shaffer, an eighth-grader at Mechanicsburg Middle School.
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BC High, the Globe's top-ranked boys' basketball team, was lucky last night at Brockton and Eagles coach Bill Loughnane will be the first to admit it.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A 9-year-old Utah boy won a national championship in a sport he doesn't even like, and only did it after missing a bus to the finals.  Dumsira Nwibiabu, a fourth-grader, won his age division Saturday at the NFL's Punt, Pass and Kick competition at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field.
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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By RICK COLLINS  Education  BRAINTREE - South Shore high school students so far have done pretty well passing their reading, writing and arithmetic MCAS tests.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's the oldest story in the book: Local Boy Makes Good. Tyrelle Blair hails from Monticello, Fla., some 30 minutes from the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. The Boston College transfer made the absolute most of his homecoming yesterday by coming off the bench to bail out the sagging Eagles with six blocked shots, which was good ...
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In 2003, 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson was an honors student, standout athlete and homecoming king preparing for his SATs with an eye toward college. But that all changed after a New Year's Eve party involving alcohol, marijuana and sex.
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By Andy Meinen, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Feb. 11--PANAMA CITY -- An eighth-grader from Jinks Middle School won the Bay County Spelling Bee on Saturday afternoon by spelling "Permian" correctly in the 10th round.
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Results from an international test released Tuesday show Indiana fourth- and eighth-graders fared well in math and science compared with students nationally and in many other countries.
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By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 22--UNION HALL -- How do you turn around a teenager who is starting to let things slip in school?   Like many parents, Ricky Lewis faced that dilemma a few years ago.
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HOUSTON More Hispanic Texas high school seniors have taken the SAT and have performed better on the college-entrance test. That&#39;s even while there was little change reported in the overall average verbal and
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In recent testing by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Alberta teens placed in the top three for their scores in math, reading and science.
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By Sam Khan Jr., Houston Chronicle  Feb. 7--Jeff Abt looked around and realized he needed help.   The 6-2, 190-pound senior quarterback had a goal of earning a scholarship to play Division I college football.
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Bee Staff Writer. LOS ANGELES - Dallas Sartz is so good, he&#39;s liable to line up all over the field today against Cal. The USC junior from Granite Bay High School is a starting strong-side linebacker for the top-ranked Trojans.
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Yet another player joins the MRAP race.
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All those dollars invested in a 14-year-old boy are now paying off. He did not mess up his team. The league did not mess him up. Having played in 32 of his team&#39;s 33 games, Adu is a force.
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SAT scores for the high school class of 2004 were mostly the same as a year ago, though scores for some minority groups showed an encouraging increase.