We got quite a few messages about a story we aired yesterday on high school debates.
This can be valuable experience and, indeed, one study found that 78.3% of senior executives competed on high school athletic teams.
There has certainly always been pressure on high school students as they move from childhood to adolescence and to adulthood in this four year span of time.
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The U.S. already spends more on high school education than any advanced society except Switzerland and Norway, and considerably more than such egalitarian societies as Austria and Denmark.
And there is no equivalent of Animal House or the huge literature on high school and college experience in the United States both in films and books in Europe.
Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.
If he couldn't play offensive line on his high school football team, for example, it was only because he was too busy helping out on the family farm.
If Edelman's do-everything role sounds like something suited for a 7-on-7 high school league on the plains of southwest Texas, it's actually a perfect fit for the Patriots and their innovative head coach, Bill Belichick.
Today, another in our series of reports on Northwestern High School in Baltimore.
Holloway, from the affluent Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Mountain Brook, was on a high school graduation trip with classmates and parent chaperones.
Pennsylvania sophomore Blake Robbins has turned the tables on his high school administrators with his invasion of privacy lawsuit over the inappropriate use of webcams in school-issued laptops.
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Jesse Eisenberg stars as a hapless pizza-delivery guy, a slacker still living on high-school dreams, who becomes the patsy of a dumb-and-dumber pair of friends (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson).
She is currently driving a 2012 Prius Plug-in on a high school and college book and speaking tour across the U.S., sponsored in part by Toyota Motor USA, through May 2012.
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Since opening its started in 2004, more than 80 camp attendees have moved on to high school or university in the United States, whilst around 20 now play professionally in Europe.
Many said they were angry that the students, dubbed the Jena 6, were being treated more harshly than three white students who hung nooses from an oak tree on Jena High School property.
He once worked on his high school newspaper.
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With the mission of using service as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities, The Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) is a student-powered hunger relief organization hard at work on 31 high school and college campuses.
There was no mention of Holley Mangold, 2012 U.S. Olympic team weight lifter and sister of NFL Center Nick Mangold of the New York Jets, who played high school football on an all-boys team for Archbishop Alter High School, a Catholic school overseen by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Three other elementaries, one middle school and one high school on the island were also affected, school district Superintendent Stewart McDonald said.
So I became class president in middle school and went on to attend Lowell High School in San Francisco where I continuously was challenged academically, yet given a solid foundation for a commitment to lifelong learning.
The Florida High School Athletic Association lowered the hammer on the football program at Armwood High School at Tampa, Fla.
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On Saturday, high school seniors in Moore, Oklahoma, will have time to celebrate their graduation.
Yes, he studied math at Harvard, but the math on OkTrends was high school level.
Scores of families descended on a local high school for a recent community meeting to discuss the foreclosure crisis.
Often, the goal is to simply land a spot on the local high school team, an accomplishment once taken for granted.
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After two years, he went on to complete high school and enrolled at the University of Liberia where he is currently a student.
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Parents often find out only when their children go on to junior high school that they haven't yet mastered their elementary school subjects.
Version 2.0 continues the Gates emphasis on successful high-school completion and college-readiness for disadvantaged young people and adds a parallel thrust toward college completion.
And the result is we have a system that minority students graduate on time from high school -maybe one out two or about 50 percent.
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