The Obama Administration is launching an experimental initiative to provide Pell grants to high school students enrolling in college courses. The initiative targets low-income students.
Five high school students were arrested for allegedly spray-painting hate messages on walls at a rival high school. They face up to a year in prison.
Graduating high school students often use yearbook quotes to leave a poignant message or some clever quip. However, one student’s nerdy joke apparently offended administrators…
Today at 5pm on Beauty, Brains & the Bottom Line, Dr. SaFiya Hoskins interviews Dr. Carol O’Connor, author of the forthcoming, Relevance in the Curriculum: Reaching the Reluctant Reader. Dr. O’Connor states:     “Many students report that they do not read outside the school setting, and large numbers do so reluctantly – if at all – […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: None of the students or parents were really sure why they were sitting in the Benjamin Banneker Academic High School auditorium Thursday morning. Each principal, counselor or keeper-of-the-secret told a slightly different story: It’s an information session on scholarship opportunities. It’s a final meeting to go over details of their Gates […]
