California's Newest Exports: College students - NBC Bay Area
26 May 2012, 9:15 am
California is undergoing a rather unusual trade-out. Decimated funding has led the state's higher education institutions, particularly the University of California, to accept fewer in-state students while admitting more out-of-state students. The reason is ...

Most students eagerly count the days until summer vacation, but homeless children will lose safe havens - Contra Costa Times
26 May 2012, 7:56 am
PITTSBURG -- Michael Fiore and his son, Matthew, became homeless in 2010, after Fiore survived cancer but couldn't find work. After losing their Concord apartment and nearly everything they owned, the 61-year-old former Sears appliance ...

students question Naples High band director's transfer to middle school - Naples Daily News
26 May 2012, 6:23 am
The Naples High School band director has transferred to Pine Ridge Middle School, according to Collier schools Director of Human Resources Debbie Terry. Stephen Detjen was not demoted, she said, but rather asked to be transferred after the ...

Kupang students consume alcohol after announcement - Jakarta Post
26 May 2012, 4:36 am
Hundreds of senior high school students celebrate passing the national exams in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, by consuming alcohol and spray painting their school uniforms on Saturday. Some of the students drank alcohol at a bus shelter in front ...

Dixon students to visit Washington D.C. - Daily Herald
26 May 2012, 12:47 am
PROVO-- Robert Escobar, a Dixon Middle School eighth-grader, will be giving fellow students a report on Ted Kennedy next week, but he won't be doing it from a classroom. Instead, he will be sharing his report at Kennedy's burial site at Arlington National ...

students get an electrifying lesson with fish - Columbian
26 May 2012, 12:47 am
A group of students waded through the icy waters of the Muddy River near Mount St. Helens on Thursday, nets at the ready. Alongside them, Lisa Harlan moved a metal loop through the water. She activated a switch on the wand attached to the loop ...

Is there a teacher in this room? Why don’t we ever recognize the great teachers behind the great students? - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
25 May 2012, 6:06 pm
Here is another good piece by UGA professor Peter Smagorinsky. As always, his piece is provocative and worthy of discussion. By Peter Smagorinsky This week, Maureen Downey published “Rockdale student: Make students work for grades and limit ...

students Complain about New Dress Code at Stuyvesant - New York Times
25 May 2012, 1:55 pm
The dress code is meant to protect students and to preserve the academic atmosphere of Stuyvesant– or so it seems. Ever since the beginning of the school year, countless students, both male and female, have clashed with the administration ...

Madison students take first place in Team America Rocketry Challenge U.S. Finals - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 12:01 pm
THE PLAINS, Va., May 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- students from Madison West High School in Madison, Wis. placed first at the 10th annual Team America Rocketry Challenge finals Saturday, besting 99 teams from across the country to earn the title of ...

LGBT students speak out in Eugene, seek ways to end school harassment - Register-Guard
25 May 2012, 1:52 am
To be gay and out in a Louisiana middle school is to be frightened every day. Is this the day you get called names or get smacked around or hear — yet again — that somebody wants to kill you? Taylor Simpson, now a junior at North Eugene High School ...