Adolescents and Pre-Teens News

FEWER than three per cent of secondary school pupils in Basingstoke and Deane are travelling out of the borough to go to school.

Adolescents who drink alcoholic beverages for the first time during puberty are more likely to develop a drinking problem, new research says.

Thousands of students will graduate from a Gwinnett County high school next week.

PARENTS are being urged to check their children's health records and take immediate action if they have not had two doses of MMR vaccine, to help prevent a measles epidemic in Gwent.

HONOURED: Fairwater high school pupils Matt Baker, left and Sam Harrison, both 16 present teacher Vicki Booton with flowers and a certificate after she was given a commendation in the Teacher of the Year Awards Vicki Booton, a maths teacher at Fairwater High School has been named a runner-up at the Pearson Teaching Awards and will receive a ... (more)

President Benigno S. Aquino III shares the stage with the students from the Center for Excellence Elementary School for a group photo souvenir during the ceremonial signing of Republic Act No.

Pickering students prepped to flourish in high school. PICKERING -- Pine Ridge Secondary students including Braven Carvalh and Vikram Dhanda, left, were leading a discussion group with Grade 8 elementary students to help their transition to high school.

PARENTS are going to extreme lengths to rort strict school zoning rules by registering parks and relatives' homes in an attempt to trick their way into some of Adelaide's popular public schools.

SANDY BAY, Hanover:FOLLOWING AN impressive showing at the Tryall Club when it participated in last month's Earth Day competition, winning over staff and guests, the Sandy Bay Primary and Junior High School in Hanover is poised to expand its environmental/agricultural activities.

Running a massive deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars, Philadelphia's school system is planning to eliminate all sports, extracurricular activities, counselors and libraries - beyond which, for schools eviscerated by austerity politics, there's not much left to lose.

SOME 450 students in Trelawny and Portland could by September have their names carved in history as being the first set of secondary school students to take their places at Avocat and Bellview high schools.

On Friday, nearly 2,000 students congregated at the Robert H. Jackson Center to hear a speech from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, with even more participating via live Internet feeds.

The education secretary is like a "fanatical personal trainer" who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers' leader is to say.

A fired Oakleaf Junior High School gym teacher says he will be vindicated of accusations resulting in the Clay County Sheriff's Office charging him with child abuse following a confrontation with a student last month.

Just ask Burton and Margaret Huggett, who turned out last Friday afternoon to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of R.A. Brown Middle School.

A Piraeus court on Friday passed down a 220-year prison sentence on a 48-year-old physical education teacher for the repeated sexual abuse of 53 minors in the Cretan port of Rethymno.

"The writing program at the Belmont Public Schools exists to help students master the blank page," said Lindsey Rinder as she introduced a trio of seniors who filled those pages with brilliant analysis and writing and were honored with this year's Lillian F. Blacker Prizes for Excellence in Writing.

By Don Bodger - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial Published: May 16, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 16, 2013 1:33 PM Following are the series of recommendations for the 2013-14 school year presented to official trustee Mike McKay and passed during Wednesday night's open board meeting at Cowichan Secondary School.

Wilson's School had flirted with the idea of becoming a co-educational secondary, but following a consultation with parents, staff and students, it will remain an all boys school.

These are the Shelton Foundation Scholarship recipients for 2013 pose with foundation representatives Ed and Charles Shelton.