They make up one-fifth of the school-age population in the United States and will be 30% of the adult population by 2050.

CNN: Student's success defies all odds

Their numbers doubled between 1980 and 2009, and they now make up 21 percent of school-age kids.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have warned that schools would have to freeze hiring and cut after-school activities and other programs to make up for the midyear funding cut.

WSJ: Judge Blocks Cuomo Cuts for Schools

Their advice to Brandon: Rebrand Domino's on business-school campuses by playing up its potential to make franchisees a fortune.

FORBES: Marketing

In total, women make up three-quarters of registered teachers - which includes all state school teachers and also teachers in the independent sector who choose to register with the GTCE.

BBC: One in four primary schools still has no male teachers

Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make-up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.

BBC: Education & Family

Over at the Gawker properties, lady blog Jezebel came up with a creative post-election social media story: Tracie Egan Morrissey decided to make members of the high school set accountable for racist tweets that they sent out after Barack Obama was re-elected.

FORBES: Should Teenagers Have Racist Election Tweets In Their Google Results For Life? Jezebel Votes Yes.