Combs encourages kids to stay in school
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The principal at Benjamin Franklin High School wanted a speaker who would get students' attention.
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Richard Gibbons offers a simple strategy to ensure that your child can go to college.
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This is exactly the kind of encouragement parents holding second mortgages to pay for trainers and summer camps do NOT need: For the second year running, Southern California basketball coach Tim Floyd offered a scholarship to an eighth-grader.
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Schools for children with special needs should not close unless provision is improving, the government says.
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It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at a middle school here each morning. It&#39;s encouraged. The program makes it easier for kids squeezed for time to squeeze in breakfast.
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With another school year about to begin, the time is right for "The Education of Ms. Groves."
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Four years ago, Sean "Diddy" Combs took his hip-hop swagger across the nation in an effort to get young people to vote, with the bold slogan "Vote or Die." Now the entertainer has just a simple message: Go vote.
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A campaign to get school children and teenagers out of school to do more sport is announced by Gordon Brown.
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By MIKE JOHNSON  Town of Merton - If you're a kid and it's a school day, there aren't too many better ways to spend the hours than splashing around in a lake, tromping through a swamp or hiking in a forest, all with the blessing of the principal and teachers.
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Good teaching and leadership help to cut truancy rates and boost school attendance, says an Ofsted report.
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Hoping to prevent the loss of children, a few schools have begun monitoring student movements using technology similar to that used to track livestock and retail shipments.
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Schools support "inclusion" for special needs pupils - except when they have behaviour problems.
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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In a back-to-school message, President Bush says that while many public schools aren't making the grade, he should get high marks from voters for the No Child Left Behind Act.
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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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Almost 10,000 teenagers are to receive their first payments for staying on at school this month.
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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.