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20-May-2013

Mpls. Schools To Revive Autonomy Plan Amid Mixed Results In US
In the latest effort to boost student performance, the Minneapolis school district wants to give more autonomy to individual schools.

High School Students Turn To Internships To Help Plot Future
This summer, teenagers will canvass in support of politicians, help nurses in hospitals or tweet as part of a company's social media effort. They're still in high school but they are working unpaid internships — sometimes even paying thousands of dollars to do so.

Graduation At One-Room McCormick School Unlike All Others
The letter arrived in the governor’s office in January, the request coming from students in a 104-year-old one-room school in one of the farthest reaches of Montana.

D.C. Charter School Would Teach All But Math And English Online
A controversial computer-based learning model is competing with eight other proposals to be one of the next charter schools approved for the District.

Missing School - For Vacation
It’s that time. If you’re a teacher in a school with a large concentration of Hispanic students, you’re doing end-of-year reviews and preparing for final exams — and you have kids trickling up to you to let you know they won’t be around for them.

High School Seniors Release 10,000 Crickets Into Halls, Get Banned From Graduation
High school seniors were banned from graduation after releasing 10,000 crickets into its halls as a prank.

Students Pose For 'Fine Arts Senior Nudie Calendar'
New York City firefighters do it. So why can't the 2013 Parsons Fine Arts senior class make a nudie calendar, too? Graduating seniors of Parsons BFA Fine Arts Program put their brains together to come up with this creative and effective way to create buzz around their senior thesis show. The "Fine Arts Senior Nudie Calendar" is a series of intimate portraits featuring students posing naked, well except for their works of art they've used to cover up their "nudie" parts.

Student Banned From Prom Tried To Attend Anyway
A Shippensburg Area High School student was cited for disorderly conduct Saturday night after swearing at several school officials who denied him access to the prom.


 

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