Adolescents and Pre-Teens News

"It's not fair!" " "You're not the boss of me." "She hit me!" "He started it." Fights between siblings - from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom - are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of growing up.

PARENTS of pupils at a top-rated school are calling for answers following an announcement by Caerphilly council that it could one of two to close in the county.

Second-grader Tammer Ali does a worksheet in an English Language Learner summer school class at the Cordova Villa Elementary School in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

European Union leaders will hold a summit later this month to tackle the growing scourge of youth unemployment.

A starter pistol was allegedly fired into a pupil's face by a teacher at a secondary school in Jersey.

In this research note, Markaz analyzes status of the GCC education sector and highlights its current and expected enrollment trends and market size.

Hormone treatment to halt puberty in adolescents with gender identity disorder does not cause lasting harm to their bones, a new study finds.

Schools are facing increasing pressure to spend money aimed at very poor pupils, known as the pupil premium, to plug holes in budgets, a report says.

Education deans at two Kansas public universities criticized Tuesday a think tank's report of U.S. teacher-training programs that concludes too many mediocre graduates have been making their way into classrooms.

It's the documentary that audiences and film critics are eating up. In a covert six-month mission to expose the inside world of school lunches, 11-year-old Zachary Maxwell made Yuck: A 4th Grader's Documentary About School Lunch when he was a fourth-grader at a New York City public school.

Tom, above, spent two months overseas and returned home to find his room transformed from a shabby crash pad into a pre-teen princess lair.

Hoping to facilitate discussion and expose a different viewpoint, members of the Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley and several educators took part in a presentation on educational standards Monday from a group concerned about the over-reaching efforts of the federal government.

The state's new education tax credit program is unconstitutional because it diverts tax payments to religious schools, a superior court ruled Monday.

Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's north-east, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said on Monday.

Obese adolescents are more likely than their normal-weight counterparts to have hearing loss, according to results of a new study.

Most of the 12 pre-teen girls on the Texas Zoo's Zoo Explorer Camp on Monday afternoon hovered nearby.

Tri City Christian Academy senior Kristen Hearn was recognized on June 5 in Concord at the State House as one of 29 recipients in New Hampshire for Comcast's Leaders and Achievers Award.

The proportional share of death and serious injury on the roads involving children aged under five is at the highest level for 10 years, according to a report.

Surrey's Southridge School was the only non-Vancouver school in the top five of the Fraser Institute's secondary school rankings for 2011-12.

This year [2006] marks the 30th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa, which marked the start of the fall of apartheid, and inspired activists worldwide.