Study: 8th-graders make gains
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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The study confirms recent estimates, which put the number at roughly one in 160 children â higher than the one-in-200 estimate made in the 1980s.
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More high school athletes are taking online classes. Does electronic ed work?
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NEW YORK  - Adolescent girls who rank themselves at the bottom of the social totem pole are more likely to gain weight over time than their peers with a more positive view of their social standing, new research shows.
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NEW YORK  - A lifestyle intervention program increased bone mineral density over 2 years in a group of lean 14- to 16-year-old girls who were not building up their bones as much as they should at their age, researchers found.
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In addition to improved fitness levels, eight weeks of aerobic exercise improves levels of "good" HDL cholesterol and measures of circulatory function, in overweight children and adolescents, according to a report in the December issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.
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The nation's students have performed significantly better on state reading and math tests since President Bush signed his landmark education initiative into law five years ago, according to a major independent study released yesterday.
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Secondary schools have been told to allow pupils to carry water and consume it during lessons because of evidence that it improves their health and academic performance.
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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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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.
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Government exceeds target of increasing the number of pupils achieving at least five A* to C grades in their GCSEs.
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WESTWOOD -- Inside the New England Sports Academy, a group of girls gracefully leaped and tumbled across mats. They were dressed in colorful, sparkly leotards, their hair tightly wound in buns. Their practice last week was more than routine. It was the equivalent of a dress rehearsal before the young gymnasts make their national debut.
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Montgomery County students graduating from public high schools this year increased their average SAT score by eight points, joining Fairfax County among the very few large districts to average
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American eighth-graders improved their math and science scores on an international test last year, but fourth-graders&#39; scores were flat and all students
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Among teens in one Los Angles public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said
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NEW YORK  - Getting teenagers more active   in school life may lower the odds that they will smoke, drink,   use drugs or have sex, a new study suggests.
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Creating A+ and A++ grades at A-level  would help private school pupils who apply to universities, a study says.