Elementary and High School Education

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High School Sports Hall of Fame going up in Pa.

AP News 11 days ago

High School Sports Hall of Fame to be built in Pa.; past inductees include LeBron, Joe Mauer A new national museum honoring excellence in scholastic sports is going up in eastern Pennsylvania, spotlighting the high school exploits of pro superstars like LeBron ...

Boys in high school sports more likely to fight, drink: study

Reuters Life! Online Report 11 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Teenage boys involved in high school team sports are less likely to get depressed or smoke but they are more associated with increased fighting and binge drinking, according to a U.S. study. The findings by Ohio's Injury ...

Do high school sports fuel unhealthy behaviors?

Reuters US Online Report Health News 11 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Think that getting high school students involved in team sports will help keep them away from drugs, alcohol and other unhealthy behaviors? It's not entirely true, according to research presented today at the American Public Health Association's ...

Fort Hood Illinois Victim

AP News 14 days ago

In this 2006 Bolingbrook High School yearbook photo provided by Prestige Portraits by Lifetouch in Woodridge, Ill., is Michael Pearson of Bolington, Ill. U.S Army Pfc. Michael Pearson was one of 13 people killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in ...

Incentive to consider college — in eighth grade

Las Vegas Sun 14 days ago

The eighth grader was curious Wednesday why he had been chosen to attend an off-campus event to motivate him to aim for college, given that middle school was proving to be a challenge. Its because were stupid, one of his classmates, who ...

Pakistan

AP News 15 days ago

Pakistani local tribal people visit the remains of a girls school which was allegedly blown up by militants in Bara, situated in Pakistan's tribal area of Khyber, on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Militants blew up the girls' school in the Khyber tribal ...

Obama

AP News 16 days ago

President Barack Obama speaks at James C. Wright Middle School in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Andy Manis) Copyright 2009 AP News

HereÕs hope for a smarter future for Nevada

Las Vegas Sun 16 days ago

Kids today are thinking for themselves, not just parroting their parents Is anyone in Nevada smarter than a fifth grader? The Las Vegas Suns Emily Richmond did a Nevada Day story by interviewing people waiting in line at the Department of Motor ...

A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classrooms

AP News 17 days ago

Some US schools take Columbus beyond the ocean blue; lessons include germ warfare, atrocities Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a ...

Michelle Obama And School Students Help With Harvest Of White House Garden

Getty Images 21 days ago

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 29: First Lady Michelle Obama poses for a picture withand students from Bancroft Elementary School and Kimball Elementary School, after harvesting vegetables on the South Lawn of the White House on October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. First Lady ...

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