Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria Virginia has won the top spot on the U.S. News & World Report's America's Best High Schools ranking. It is a high school that with a program that is supposed to be very challenging for students. Here is a description...
For the fourth time in a little more than four months a student attending California's Palo Alto High School has committed suicide. The most recent occurrence was carried out by jumping in front of...
It was reported by sources inside Huntington North High School in Huntington, IN, that a possible Columbine type assault was planned. According to local officials, a piece of graffiti was located in a nearby retail store, stating the intentions of the alleged...
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Cindy was sitting next to a man while riding the city bus, he started to ask her questions. She responded politely but got up and moved to another seat when he tried to place his hand on her knee. When she sat down in another seat, he followed her but remained standing...
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I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...
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San Ysidro High School in San Diego was evacuated this afternoon due to a bomb threat on campus at 3:20pm. Students and staff were led away to a nearby sports field while officers swept the school for hazardous objects or substances. "According to San Diego Fire-Rescue...
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An openly gay high school senior won the title of prom queen at a Los Angeles high school. Sergio Garcia, the newly crowned senior, beat out eight girls for the title. " "Prom queen suited my personality the...
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It had been two days since they used anything. Octavio Cruz didn’t know what to do with himself on the first day so he rearranged his entire room. Jamila Martinez was waking up in the middle of the night, bashing her head into...
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In this age of all things digital, most people consider technology to be indispensable to their everyday lives. However, Shannon Meyer's 10th grade advisory class at the California Academy for Liberal...
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" Posted: Monday, May 04, 2009 The Minnesota Supreme Court will convene at Buffalo High School, 877 Bison Blvd., Buffalo, MN, at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Oral arguments will be followed by a...
Members of the South Kingstown High School Robotics team explain the vehicle they made for the MATE ROV 2009 regional competition at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. If you were a participant on one of the teams in...
TUCSON -- So few in the Junior USTA know any of them.
Limited to the high school circuit, these tennis players get eclipsed by their renowned teammates on a regular basis. But this past Sunday, 64 competitors...
This team should not haverun up the score that muchbut the other team shouldhave never took the game. "A Texas high school girls basketball team has apologized for winning big. The Covenant School, a private...
The same week an African-American family moves into the White House, a movie about a Mississippi high school's first integrated dance debuts at the Sundance Film Festival. What's most significant about "Prom...
" According to the latest data available, Latino students such as Araque account for 27 percent of the California State University's systemwide enrollment. At University of California campuses, figures are lower. Black students, meanwhile, make up even smaller percentages of...
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