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'Wonder Twins' penned as youngest high school students in history
11:34 AM on 03/04/2010
Two 9-year-old twins in Britain are preparing to find out what high school they'll attend, making them the country's youngest high school students in history...
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Obama proposes $900 million in grants to stop school drop outs
10:29 AM on 03/01/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says 1.2 million students drop out of school each year, and only about 70 percent of entering high school freshmen go on to graduate...
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Entire teaching staff fired at underperforming US school
2:02 PM on 02/24/2010
VIDEO - Tthe Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at the end of the school year...
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Flash mob turns violent in Philly
4:27 PM on 02/17/2010
VIDEO - One teen is hospitalized and more than a dozen others are in jail after a flash mob turned violent in Philadelphia's Center City Tuesday...
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Elite NYC schools need to be taught about diversity
1:53 PM on 02/09/2010
From The NY Times - Parents and educators criticize Stuyvesant and Bronx Science for admitting few black & Latino children - blame standardized testing and poor preparation...
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Free early college for at-risk students brings success
10:23 AM on 02/08/2010
From The NY Times - At a new wave of early-colleges across the country, the goal is to keep at-risk students in school by eliminating the divide between high school and college...
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Principal is tossed for having sexual relationships with students
2:08 PM on 01/08/2010
Quintin Cedeno was a popular administrator at the High School of Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture in Queens, New York...
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Despite kidney failure, teacher continues to inspire
2:50 PM on 01/06/2010
VIDEO - She helps unlock the secrets to success in school with teenagers other teachers might write-off. To know Tonya Griggs is to listen to her students...
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Four California teens team up to succeed at college
5:28 AM on 01/06/2010
From LATimes.com When Keymarian Washington was in eighth grade, he was shot at while hanging out with gang members on a Pasadena street. By Bruce Palmore's sophomore year, his father feared that his son's poor grades and lack of motivation meant he would never finish high school, much less make...
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Snoop Dogg is off-field savior for high school football team
8:38 AM on 12/18/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Snoop Dogg is more than a rapper -- he's a football inspiration. Crenshaw High School's team is undefeated this season...
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Debate teams help black students find their voice
8:20 AM on 12/15/2009
VIDEO - High school juniors Devonte Escoffery and Stephon Adams have made their school's debate team their number one priority...
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Michelle Obama talks to girls in Denver about mentor program
4:32 PM on 11/16/2009
DENVER (AP) -- The first lady on Monday told about 80 Denver high school girls that successful women make mistakes, but they keep working.
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Mrs. Obama kicks off mentoring program for high school girls
7:33 AM on 11/03/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama is launching a mentoring program for local high school girls to have access to women at the White House...
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Cheerleading squad quits after alleged racial discrimination
10:50 AM on 10/30/2009
VIDEO - The cheerleading squad and coaches at Portland, Oregon's Lincoln High School have resigned. Principal Peyton Chapman confirmed that coaches Tori Cotton...
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Racist fliers cause football team to throw in its jerseys
8:21 AM on 10/28/2009
VIDEO - Players on a Michigan high school football team have thrown in their jerseys - literally - after an assistant coach allegedly posted fliers in the team's locker room that contained racial slurs...
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15-year-old girl beaten and gang-raped outside of high school
1:25 PM on 10/27/2009
VIDEO - Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming dance without reporting it...
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Obama sends Holder and Duncan to Chicago to discuss youth violence
4:29 PM on 10/07/2009
VIDEO - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan pledged federal support on Wednesday to fight a surge in youth violence in Chicago and other cities...
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School to be named after the nation's first black priest
9:02 AM on 10/05/2009
Columbia's first Catholic high school will be named after the nation's first known black priest. The Rev. Augustine Tolton was born into slavery in Ralls County in 1854...
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$6,000 reward offered for info on Chicago beating suspects
9:32 AM on 09/30/2009
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities in Chicago are offering $6,000 for information that leads to more arrests in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old honor student...
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High school honor student beaten to death in Chicago
11:28 AM on 09/28/2009
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police say they're bolstering security around a high school on the city's South Side after a student was beaten to death...
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