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Enough is enough! Are we wearing bangles? A group of 20-25 Shiv Sena activists attacked journalists and damaged property at the offices of IBN7 and IBN Lokmat, the Hindi and Marathi news channels of the IBN Network, in north-east Mumbai’s Vikhroli...
Tags: politics, indian, youth, india, youthkiawaaz, anshultewari
A large-scale restructuring of government's secondary education system will be implemented in September 2010, Education Ministry officials in the Cayman Islands have announced. The restructuring includes the introduction of two "all-through" high schools;...
Tags: Mary Rodrigues, secondary education, Cayman Islands, George Town, General Certificate of Secondary Education, High school, Vocational education, Education in Guyana, Adolescence, Educational stages, Youth, Education
Building a world fit for children Twenty years after the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we must do more to listen to vulnerable children To 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)...
Tags: Mumo Katumo, Amnesty UK, world fit, CRC, United Kingdom, Birmingham, Human rights, Child, Childhood, Youth, Convention on the Rights of the Child
More than 60 people attended a meeting Tuesday night at which Union officials announced the district's plans, which include adding a wing to the high school for a collegiate academy for seniors; moving 10th-graders into the high school; making the intermediate...
Tags: Union Collegiate Academy, Cathy Burden, elementary schools, grade centers, Union Public Schools, Tulsa, York County Pennsylvania, Natrona County School District, Prince George's County Public Schools, Adolescence, High school, Youth, Education
California Watch surveyed the 30 largest K-12 school districts in the state and found that many schools are pushing class sizes to 24 in some or all of the early grades. Other districts have raised class sizes to 30 students – reverting to levels not...
Tags: class sizes, schools district, California Watch, sizes reduction, unified schools, raising class, San Jose, Education reform, Youth, Butterfield Elementary School, Education
Also pictured, from left, are Gina Odom, Abbey Leone and Anya Whittier. Colorado — When Emily Gentry saw some of her fellow Bridges High School students falling into the kinds of cliques that turned her away from the traditional high school, she decided...
Tags: Carbondale, Student society, High school, Student politics, Youth, Student council, Education
It requires an extreme makeover of a school's schedule and academic and extracurricular offerings. That was the message officials from the National Center on Time and Learning in Boston drove home at a forum for school and community leaders Wednesday...
Tags: middle schools, Tulsa Public Schools, extended learning, core subjects, Tulsa, Middle school, Tulsa Oklahoma, E-Learning, Educational stages, Youth, Chris Gabrieli, Education
The center recently welcomed 488 ninth-graders from nine of its 12 member school districts for its first Career Exploration Day. Instead of shadowing a class, which has been the traditional way students are introduced to Parkway West programs, the freshmen...
Tags: West Allegheny School District, Quaker Valley School District, Parkway West, Mr. Highfield, Lebanon, Beirut, Adolescence, High school, Youth, Education
Manatee County’s Children’s Services Advisory Board has targeted teen pregnancy prevention as a major priority and is asking its program providers to craft a plan of attack. On Wednesday, the board approved a request for information that will be sent...
Tags: teen pregnancy, Manatee County, Mike Neuges, pregnancy rate, Bradenton, Motherhood, Teenage pregnancy, Youth, Manatee County Florida, Bradenton Florida, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Controversies
Updated 20 minutes ago The Albertville City School system is working on its version of a Freshman Academy, which targets ninth-graders and encourages them to stay in school. At any given time, there are about 25 to 30 percent of ninth-graders struggling...
Tags: Joyce Bishop, social studies, Albertville City School, Albertville, Foote School, Adolescence, High school, Youth, Education