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California students continued to make incremental gains in meeting minimal graduation standards, with 94.6 percent of the Class of 2011 passing the high school exit exam.

The Philadelphia-area high school teacher who was suspended for blogging about some of her "lazy" and "frightfully dim" students will get her ...

Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

Two Roman Catholic school workers from New Jersey have pleaded not guilty to charges of having sex with female students during a high school's class trip to Germany.

America's teens are using more marijuana and less alcohol, according to an annual government study of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders across the country. Some 6.1 percent of high-school seniors reported using marijuana this year, up from 5.2 percent in 2009, according to the Monitoring the Future survey released by the National Institutes of Health.

Depending on whom you ask, West Potomac High School's latest change to student grading is either another sign of a coddled generation or a necessary step to help struggling kids.

A Savannah High student raped a female schoolmate in a campus hallway during school hours.

A Londonderry high school teacher repeatedly offered to perform a sex act on one of her students and also e-mailed nude photographs of herself that ended up circulating among students at the New Hampshire school, according to police.

A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit....

A USA TODAY analysis reveals that more students are failing Advanced Placement tests -- but the number of students taking the ...