Adolescents and Pre-Teens News

GCSEs and A-levels are currently set to the same standard in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but Michael Gove said it was hard to see how this could continue.

That was the message delivered by a panel of experts at a discussion hosted by the Center for American Progress last week.

The education secretary is like a "fanatical personal trainer" who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers' leader is to say.

After her school experience took its own twists and turns, 35-year-old Sandy Lemmink, a University of Cincinnati senior majoring in early childhood education, is finally achieving her dreams.

I really don't need much of a reason to rep my hometown of Cincinnati, but a more recent Queen City-proud moment came a couple months back when I caught some demo tracks from the locally hyped Tweens .

Nothing can be more frightening to a parent than to learn that her child is gravely ill.

Parents of children who are regular school truants are to be fined up to A 120, says the Welsh government.

Power suit? Check. Advanced degree? Check. Swagger? Check. Watch out world, you've got power written all over you.

Results suggest girls from mixed-sex schools are more likely to draw their sense of self-worth from their physical appearance One of the UK's most famous girls schools has announced it will be taking in boys for the first time.

Sex education at a school in Lambeth. One headteacher says he 'wouldn't dream' of talking to youngsters about pornography.

Pupil achievement at one of Sheffield's biggest secondary schools has 'fallen sharply' over the last two years, according to education inspectors who have ordered it to improve.

A student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has been named as a 2013 Presidential Scholar by the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program .

In March, residents voted to appropriate $15.5 million in additional funds for the school building project .

FEWER than three per cent of secondary school pupils in Basingstoke and Deane are travelling out of the borough to go to school.

Adolescents who drink alcoholic beverages for the first time during puberty are more likely to develop a drinking problem, new research says.

Thousands of students will graduate from a Gwinnett County high school next week.

PARENTS are being urged to check their children's health records and take immediate action if they have not had two doses of MMR vaccine, to help prevent a measles epidemic in Gwent.

HONOURED: Fairwater high school pupils Matt Baker, left and Sam Harrison, both 16 present teacher Vicki Booton with flowers and a certificate after she was given a commendation in the Teacher of the Year Awards Vicki Booton, a maths teacher at Fairwater High School has been named a runner-up at the Pearson Teaching Awards and will receive a ... (more)

President Benigno S. Aquino III shares the stage with the students from the Center for Excellence Elementary School for a group photo souvenir during the ceremonial signing of Republic Act No.

Pickering students prepped to flourish in high school. PICKERING -- Pine Ridge Secondary students including Braven Carvalh and Vikram Dhanda, left, were leading a discussion group with Grade 8 elementary students to help their transition to high school.