Mr.Obama spoke at a high school in Arlington,Virginia a short drive from the White House where the student body is ethnically and economically diverse.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

He worked on his high school newspaper and later left the University of Texas at Austin to become a journalist.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Her sister became a sculptor. After finishing high school at the age of eighteen, Diane married Allan Arbus.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

"The number of young adults that have finished high school is also now at a record all-time high.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

More than one thousand people staying at the hotel were taken to a nearby high school.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Marc Tucker says the aim is to make sure students finish high school with enough skills to succeed in at least a two-year college.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

I was supposed to attend a summer writing program for high school students at the university.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Touch of Class is a student singing group at Chantilly High School in Fairfax County,Virginia.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

But Marc Tucker says students who pass the exams could stay in high school and take a demanding set of exams at the upper division level.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Ms.Peace teaches science at Saint Joseph's, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone.

VOA: special.2011.03.03