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  • High School Violence: A Sign that Schools Need Stronger Discipline Policies?

    High School Violence: A Sign that Schools Need Stronger Discipline Policies?0

    Teachers in Minnesota’s St. Paul Public Schools district are considering a strike – but not over pay or benefits. Instead, they’re concerned about their own safety. According to a local newspaper, discipline problems in the district have escalated, particularly since “St. Paul spent more than $1 million on Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco consulting

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  • High School Students Claim Ignorance Should Not Be Used Against Them in Exam Scores

    High School Students Claim Ignorance Should Not Be Used Against Them in Exam Scores0

    “My dog ate my homework” has long been the default excuse for students who miss the mark with their school assignments. But high school students in New Zealand appear to have moved beyond this tired excuse, for instead of blaming the dog, they are turning their own ignorance into an excuse for victimhood. According to

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  • High School History Lessons: 1936 vs. Today

    High School History Lessons: 1936 vs. Today0

    • July 23, 2015

    How do today’s American history textbooks differ from those of nearly a century ago? I found myself wondering this when I obtained a copy of the popular AP U.S. History textbook America’s History. According to a group of over 100 prominent scholars, history texts like this one have been newly formatted to focus on “identity-group

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  • High School Girl Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Files Federal Complaint

    High School Girl Who Lost Race to Transgender Athletes Files Federal Complaint0

    A female high school athlete who didn’t qualify for a track event because two boys who identify as girls ran faster filed a complaint Monday with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. “No one in the state of Connecticut is happy about this, but no one has enough courage to speak up,” Selina

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  • High School Football or Day Care?

    High School Football or Day Care?3

    Football season is almost over, but for the past couple months, middle school students who attended high school games in several Oklahoma cities have had to sit with their parents at all times. At some schools, even if they go to the bathroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. The Oklahoma schools’ rules were

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  • High School Curriculum 200 Years Ago vs. Today

    High School Curriculum 200 Years Ago vs. Today2

    Has the curriculum in America’s high schools been “dumbed down”? The question is often asked, but many lack anything beyond anecdotal evidence to compare past curricula with the present.   So, to make an initial, humble offering for the sake of comparison, I thought I would post the curriculum of the first public high school

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