Faris teamed up with CNN's "AC360" in 2011 to study bullying at a high school in Long Island, New York.

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Not only did U.S. educators play a leading role in designing and carrying out the study, but the results, which showed U.S. high school students lagging behind those in other industrial countries, attracted widespread attention in the news media and in educational circles.

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And it requires replicating innovative ideas that make class feel engaging and relevant -- because most high school dropouts in a recent study said the reason they dropped out was that they weren't interested in class and they weren't motivated to do their work.

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At the top of her class throughout high school and university study, Yesh thrived in competitive environments.

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More than half of the 262 high school seniors who participated in the study were "excessively sleepy, " according to a commonly used scale that gauges how likely a person is to doze off during everyday activities such as reading, watching TV, or sitting in a traffic jam.

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According to a 2006 study (PDF), 22% of high school dropouts in the United States leave school to care for a family member.

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Thanks to the information revolution, the rewards for university study are growing: in 1997 college graduates earned 77% more than high school graduates, up from a differential of 58% in 1975.

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In a landmark study, the Brookings Institution found that young adults who finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children have just a 2% chance of falling into poverty and a 74% chance of ending up in the middle class.

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Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.

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According to the study, children growing up in one-parent homes are 16% more likely to drop out of high school.

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The study is likely to include the possibility that the disease at early stages may be found in those who only played high school football.

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