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High school senior boys are nearly twice as likely to say they are conservative than liberal, while high school girls continue to drift leftward, the Hill reported, citing a federal survey of American youth.

The CDC found increased rates of hopelessness, sadness, and suicidality among “LGBQ+” students relative to their “heterosexual” counterparts.

Two Texas high school seniors who were discovered dead this month had fentanyl in their system, according to a toxicology report, and a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged for allegedly supplying drugs to the teens, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has announced.

A pair of Oklahoma high school sophomores rescued another teenage driver who crashed into a pond while having a medical issue, according to a report.

A Georgia high school student with a 4.0 GPA has been accepted to nearly 50 colleges while receiving $600,000 in scholarship offers. 

A school district in Missouri is turning to students to help fill its vacant positions due to staffing issues.

Thousands fewer graduating high school students took the SAT and ACT college readiness assessments in 2021 compared to the previous year.

In groups of varying sizes, American students on Wednesday joined in prayer for the annual See You at the Pole (SYATP) gatherings, the Western Journal reported.

Three career academic math scholars gave a stern warning about the “deplorable” state of K-12 math education in the United States as schools prioritize social justice and diversity over merit, thereby allowing China to successfully advance as the world’s leader in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that requires high school students to learn about the evils of communism and totalitarian ideologies.

New Hampshire officials are investigating concerns about the Exeter-area school district that marked unvaccinated students at the prom with a pen.

A school board member told Justice High School graduates in Fairfax County they are headed to a world rooted in racism and white supremacy.

Unvaccinated students attending the Exeter, New Hampshire, high school prom were “numbered” with a sharpie pen and then tracked throughout the evening, a New Hampshire parental rights advocate reported.

Gov. Ned Lamont touted Wednesday Connecticut is the first state in the nation to require high schools to offer black and Latino studies courses.

A poll at pro-education reform journal Education Next revealed an overwhelming majority of parents support some online classes for their high school-age children.

A high school principal in Wylie, Texas, is making sure his students feel loved while their campus is closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pro-LGBTQ high school students walked out of school last week to protest a Chick-fil-A food truck’s presence at the school’s football games.

A federal judge has dismissed the defamation case of a Pennsylvania high school student who was falsely accused of sexual assault.

The author of a bill that would require California high school students to be taught an ethnic studies curriculum has decided to delay the measure amid intense debate over which political identity groups should be included in the program.

The College Board announced it would be dropping its controversial “adversity score” on the SAT college entrance exam that informed schools of the socio-economic background of students taking the test.

The Greater Hartford, Connecticut, branch of the NAACP called for Simsbury residents to “pack” a board of education meeting Tuesday night after a photo seeming to show two high school students in “blackface” appeared on social media.

“We are getting a flood of e-mails, phone calls and Facebooks,” said school board member Eric Robinson, according to Fox 13 News, about the video that features a man grabbing a woman’s breast and same-sex couples making out.

Parents’ anger led to a statement of apology by a Wyoming school district after a multiple-choice online quiz included “shooting at Trump” as a possible answer that was administered to high school students.

The school board of Reading, Pennsylvania, has rejected a proposed high school sex education center whose daily operations would have been run by the Planned Parenthood Keystone affiliate.

A high school in Allentown, Pennsylvania has received a demand letter from the Thomas More Society on behalf of students who claim they were denied permission to form a pro-life club at the school.

The state of Georgia is reportedly launching an investigation into student voter registrations handled by the local chapter of the NAACP at Glynn County area high schools.

A student at Omaha-area Gretna High School in Nebraska says that she has been discriminated against as a result of administrators denying her the right to form a school-sponsored Students for Life club at the school.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an assistant classics professor at Princeton, writes in an op-ed in the New York Times that he is pro-immigration reform and that high school students should be taught about how to fight for illegal immigrants in school. He also does not differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.

As America looks back on the September 11 terrorist attack that changed the nation, the direction of education in the country seems on track to ensure that U.S. students either forget that day entirely or view it as a result of America’s own failure to be open and accepting of other cultures.

Federal agents seized computers and other materials from Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board. Alfaro had contacted government officials from seven states, making accusations his former employer lied about its tests in bids for state contracts.

President Obama’s home state of Illinois is abandoning the Common Core-aligned PARCC test for high school students.

Students at Jackson Central-Merry High School in Tennessee are learning more than they probably bargained for. They watched the torture porn film The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (THC2) in class.

U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. explains that the just-released dismal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results need to be viewed in light of the seven years of “significant changes” in America’s classrooms due to the Common Core standards.

About 37 percent of U.S. 12th-graders are prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and in reading, according to the 2015 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). That’s down from the 2013 assessments.

The superintendent of the Maine School Administrative District 35 is scrambling to calm parents who were outraged that their high school students were offered community service credit for volunteering 50 hours of service in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

A school district is drafting a general policy to ban all items that depict the Confederate flag, after suspending nearly two dozen students for wearing clothing that featured that flag. The Montgomery County School Board in Virginia voted unanimously to draft a policy that would ban all clothing, emblems, decals, or jewelry representing the Confederate flag from all school property in the county.