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Inner-City Charter School Succeeds with 'YES' Program.
It was Deadline Day at YES Prep North Central, the day college applications were supposed to be finished. So much was riding on this: the reputation of a charter school built around the mission of sen... --1/4/2010
High School Chefs Bring the Heat in Culinary Program.
“Show, Explain, Do,” is the educational approach for students at the Professional Foods program at the Center for Technology, Essex, and the kitchen is a flurry activity. Students bustle about the roo... --11/13/2009
Student Debates Linked to Gains in Urban Achievement.
African-American students who took part in debate leagues had higher GPAs, were more likely to graduate from high school, and were more college-ready in English and reading than those who did not take... --10/30/2009
Student Debates Linked to Gains in Urban Achievement.
African-American students who took part in debate leagues had higher GPAs, were more likely to graduate from high school, and were more college-ready in English and reading than those who did not take... --10/30/2009
New San Francisco High School Nurtures Immigrant Youth.
The 50 high school students heading to their next class looked like typical teenagers, hauling backpacks, cradling books and laughing. Yet they were far from it. All recent immigrants, one was an orph... --9/14/2009
Future Chefs Attend Summer Culinary Arts Camp.
Thanks to a federal grant aimed at increasing the numbers of non-traditional students in culinary apprentice programs, Milwaukee Area Technical College's culinary arts faculty has been teaching 80 hig... --7/22/2009
Squash Courts Put Youths on Road to College.
The New York Times reports on StreetSquash, an intensive program that combines athletics and academics. Joshua Gary, Jamel Key, and Jennifer Moses are three seniors from Thurgood Marshall Academy, fri... --6/9/2009
High School Students Prove Bullish On a Bear Market.
Given a mock $100,000 to invest in the stock market, four boys at New Prague High School quickly decided that conservative tactics weren't for them. So the boys -- members of a team they called Black ... --12/19/2008
Program Enlists Students in Promoting Culture of Honesty to Reduce Cheating.
A New York Times editorial observes that cheating in school — plagiarism, forbidden collaboration on assignments, copying homework and cheating on exams — has soared since researchers first measured t... --10/13/2008
College Admissions Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs.
The New York Times reports that a commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending that colleges and universities move away from their relianc... --9/22/2008
High School Band to Play at Olympics, First Foreign Group to Perform in Tiananmen Square.
Brandon Nguyen is packing his trombone and homework for the fall semester. Justin Shih is taking his mellophone and some American candy. Russell Bowerman is bringing his trombone and a water purifier.... --7/26/2008
Aspiring Student Entrepreneurs Get Help Starting Businesses.
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship helps youngsters from low-income communities to build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial talent. In San Francisco, aspiring entrepreneurs too... --7/1/2008
Blogging Helps Encourage Teen Writing, Survey Reveals.
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project explores the intersection between teens, technology, and writing. For most media outlets that reported on an important new survey measuring t... --5/9/2008
Blogging Helps Encourage Teen Writing, Survey Reveals.
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project explores the intersection between teens, technology, and writing. For most media outlets that reported on an important new survey measuring t... --5/9/2008
Blogging Helps Encourage Teen Writing, Survey Reveals.
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project explores the intersection between teens, technology, and writing. For most media outlets that reported on an important new survey measuring t... --5/9/2008
African Honey Partnership Empowers Teen Entrepreneurs.
When high school students want to get experience in running a business, they usually take up internships or shadow executives. But several Florida students are running their own honey business and wit... --1/25/2008
Public, Private High School Students Achieve Equally, with Parent Involvement, Study Finds.
Low-income students who attend urban public high schools generally do just as well as private-school students with similar backgrounds, according to a study released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Cente... --10/10/2007
Teens Compete in National Braille Challenge; Kalama Teen Wins Title.
A Kalama teenager won first place and $4,000 in the Braille Institute's 7th annual national Braille Challenge last weekend in Los Angeles. Mac Potts competed against 11 other ninth-grade students from... --6/27/2007
Vermont Department of Corrections Operates Successful High School System Within Prisons.
When Nathan Stevens returns to the Caledonia Community Work Camp after laboring to make amends for a burglary conviction, the 17-year-old puts jail life aside and picks up his books. He spends time st... --2/20/2007
Two African-American Girls Make History, Representing United States in World Youth Chess Championships.
The New York Times reports that Medina Parrilla, a sophomore at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, is is going to compete in the World Youth Chess Championships in Georgia, a republic of the for... --10/12/2006
More Restrictions on Teen Drivers Result in Fewer Accidents, Study Shows.
Laws that set numerous strict conditions before teenagers can get a license can reduce fatal crashes involving 16-year-old drivers by up to 21 percent, public health researchers say. The more restrict... --7/3/2006
Pennsylvania Students Keep Farm-Town Tradition Alive in End-of-Year Tractor Parade.
Freedom Area High School students said that everything--packing a township supervisors' meeting, petitioning the school board, sending letters to the editor--was worth it, for their tradition: to hop ... --6/9/2006
On the FBI's Most Wanted List: High School Students.
The FBI, feeling the sting of employees defecting to higher-paying jobs, is scouring the halls of local high schools to fill top-secret summer jobs. The agency's Washington field office plans to hire ... --5/31/2006
At-Risk Students Find Training for Marathon Offers Discipline, Empowerment.
On Sunday 51 Oakland high school students tackled the Los Angeles Marathon, a grueling 26.2-mile test of physical and mental endurance, as part of Students Run Oakland, a program that aims to show inn... --3/20/2006
SLU Research on Teenage Mothers Refutes Conventional Wisdom.
A new Saint Louis University study rebuts the assumption that all teenagers who have babies face a future of dismal failure. Lee SmithBattle, professor of nursing at SLU, is principal investigator of ... --11/21/2005
Intensive New York City Program Trains Teenagers for Restaurant Careers.
The New York Times reports that there is a textbook for waiting tables and this summer 22 food-obsessed high school students have been committing its napkin folds and fish forks to memory. They came f... --8/3/2005
Aspiring Entrepreneurs Learn By Doing in Summer Programs.
Education Week reports that some teenagers don't hike, learn archery, or sing songs around a campfire at summer camp these days. Instead, they analyze quarterly financial reports, draw up business pla... --7/20/2005
Students in Program that Fosters Entrepreneurial Skills Display Goods at Market.
When he was a kid, 16-year-old Diego Jeanty helped his dad at work, landscaping lawns. Today, Diego's dad works for him. ''I bring my people skills to the table; he brings his work skills,'' said the ... --7/18/2005
Alaska Students Get Real-Life Business Experience at Internet Cafe.
Students put their technology expertise to good use this summer by opening the "Get Wired Internet Café," a business operated totally by students. This small group of high schoolers set up shop in the... --6/29/2005
Nation's Top Blind Students Put Their Skills to the Test at National Braille Challenge.
On Saturday, the top 60 blind and visually impaired students from across the United States and Canada met in Los Angeles to test their braille skills in The National Braille Challenge, the only nation... --6/25/2005
Teenagers' Career Choices Fill Needed Occupations, Says Gallup Poll.
Shortages of teachers, nurses and military personnel might come to an end with the next generation. All three are top-ten career choices of today's teenagers. As many 13- to 17-year-olds polled by the... --6/13/2005
Debating League Fosters Persuasive Teams that Test Skills and Cases Before the Public.
Nicholas Brady, 15, released a rapid-fire cascade of arguments into the microphone. "The United Nations cannot solve genocide," he said forcefully. "The U.N. helped create it in Rwanda by supporting t... --5/28/2005
MA Students' Letter of Protest Results in Compromise on MCAS Exam Snafu.
Furious that a faculty member's error forced them to take an MCAS exam over again, Randolph High School sophomores wrote a letter beseeching the state education commissioner to accept the higher of th... --5/26/2005
Toledo Summit Broadens Education Prospects for 700 Latino Students.
Some 700 junior and senior high school students and 200 parents are expected to participate in the third annual Latino Youth Summit at the University of Toledo starting today. The summit was created t... --5/9/2005
Denver Teenager Exposes Army Recruiters Who Bend Rules to Fill Ranks.
Seventeen-year-old high school journalist David McSwane suspected Army recruiters might be lowering their standards, reports Rick Sallinger of CBS News. "I wanted to see how far the army would go duri... --5/4/2005
Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty for Juveniles.
A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday abolished the death penalty for those who were under the age of 18 when they committed murder. By a 5-4 vote, the court declared unconstitutional the ju... --3/1/2005
New Research Reveals How Young Adults Make Decisions About What to Do After High School.
A new national survey of young adults age 18 to 25 from the nonprofit, nonpartisan opinion research organization Public Agenda finds that the vast majority of today's young adults--be they African Ame... --2/9/2005
Teens: American Dream Means Being Happy, Rather than Rich or Famous.
The American dream is all about happiness, not careers or material goods, and it's within reach, say teenagers on the cusp of independence and their own pursuit of happiness as adults.
Nearly 640 tee... --1/14/2005
Virginia Students Protest Required Pledges to Keep Dancing Clean.
Students at Loudoun Valley High School will be allowed to tango at tomorrow's Homecoming Dance--and salsa and swing dance, too, although they have all signed a pledge that they will "face each other" ... --10/22/2004
Caribbean High School Students To Debate Tourism Matters At Youth Congress.
A "Youth Congress" of 15 Caribbean high school students will showcase their knowledge of tourism when they participate in this year's Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Tourism Youth Congress which ... --10/18/2004
High School Students Prepare for National Rodeo Tournaments.
Ropes whip lazily through the air inside the barn as Shane Buchleitner, a McGuffey High School junior, throws his lariat out, lassoing the hind legs of a metal contraption on wheels called a baby sitt... --4/28/2004
Financial Literacy Improves Among Nation's High School Students.
A nationwide survey conducted for the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy reveals that for the first time since 1997, high school students are reversing declining scores and are demons... --4/8/2004
Future Farmers, Young Animal Rights Activists Fight over Pig's Life.
Yanira Santiago, 16, a junior at Miami's Coral Reef Senior High School and a member of the Future Farmers of America signed up to tend her FFA chapter's well-fed porker, aptly named "Bacon." The futur... --3/15/2004
Connecticut Community Exposes the Cheat Sheet, With Students' Aid.
The New York Times reports that cheating was not often discussed here until last spring, when the school newspaper ran a student essay denouncing "epidemic cheating." John Brady, the high school princ... --11/26/2003
Student Restaurant Cooks Up Practical Skills, Hands-on Learning.
In the kitchen of a popular Augusta restaurant, Rose Butler sampled the cheese biscuit batter as the cook stood by anticipating her reaction. Butler runs the Black and Gold Room, a fully licensed res... --11/8/2003
Careers in Intelligence Industry Unveiled for High School Students.
Next month, about 400 high school juniors and seniors from across the country will hobnob with senior intelligence agents and attempt to solve a national-security problem from the past, such as the Cu... --9/22/2003
National Poll Finds Most Teens Repulsed by Corporate Scandal.
Americans discouraged by the corrupt behavior of some corporate officers may be heartened to learn that nine out of ten teenagers say they wouldn't work for a company accused of wrongdoing. According ... --9/18/2002
Wichita Teens Train as Pilots Through Urban League Scholarship Program.
Winners of the Young Pilots Scholarships were announced at a news conference Saturday at Jabara Airport. The new program, sponsored by the Wichita Urban League's Young Engineers and Scientists program... --8/26/2002
Post-9/11 Survey Shows Teens Still Optimistic, More Family-Oriented.
More than two thirds of American teenagers feel closer to their families since the Sept. 11 attacks and remain hopeful about the country's future, according to the annual "State of Our Nation's Youth"... --8/7/2002
Student Auto Mechanics Compete Under Pressure, in National Competition.
Steven Colbert and Douglas McCarthy, 18-year-old auto repair students, thought they had fixed every bug in a 2002 Ford Mustang. But as they drove up to the judges' area a "check engine" light came on.... --6/26/2002
Nuclear Proliferation Tops List of Student Concerns, in Capitol Forum.
The proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons was the top concern of American high school students who participated recently in Brown University's Capitol Forum. The day-long program ... --6/5/2002
Texas Students' Lively Convention Proves Latin is No Dead Language.
More than 2,000 students from 97 schools attended an annual classics convention on Saturday. Sponsored by the Texas State Junior Classical League, it featured reenactments of life in the Roman Empire,... --4/8/2002
Queens High School Makes National Debate Tournament for First Time.
Franklin K. Lane High School's debate team will be one of two teams representing New York City at the National Forensics League championships, the country's leading high school debate tournament, in J... --3/15/2002
While Groundhog Sees Shadow, Students See Future Careers.
February 1 marked the kickoff of a program that helps students across America "shadow" workplace mentors as they go through a normal day on the job. More than 100,000 businesses nationwide participate... --2/5/2002
Nationwide Survey Polls Teens on Ideal Career and Education Goals; 'Doctor' Tops List.
According to results from the largest student poll conducted in its history, Junior Achievement (a Colorado Springs educational organization) has learned that the profession of "doctor" is the most po... --1/16/2002
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