The 1958 Cooper ruling was a case out of Arkansas that followed the 1957-58 civil strife after black students were admitted to a Little Rock High School.

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Sandler is Robbie Hart, who was once the lead singer of a high-school rock group and six years later, circa 1985, has risen only as far as playing master of ceremonies at Connecticut weddings.

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Next up: a starring role opposite the chart-topping Jonas Brothers in Camp Rock, a High School Musical-esque Disney Channel movie premiering in June.

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In high school, punk rock didn't push the boundaries enough for him, so Gillis began to purposely skip CDs and create sound collages.

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Davies High School is named in honor of Ronald Davies, the former federal judge from Fargo whose 1957 rulings integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

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If the laid off auto worker in Detroit, or the high school student in Little Rock, or the former textile marketer in Greensboro, N.

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Landau grew up on folk music, and in high school he went to every rock concert he could afford.

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By high school, he'd discovered rock climbing, becoming a self-described "dirtbag" who loved to tackle risky ascents.

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According to the Salt Lake Tribune, he dropped out of high school in the late 1970s to play in a rock band.

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Instead, upon arriving in the United States from Uganda, East Africa, I attended Simon's Rock Early College, the nation's first "early college" for high school aged students.

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