High School

Research on 112,000 Canadian students finds that high schoolers who took more music courses did better in math, science, and English.

Legal experts say this complaint resonates with a larger pattern of discrimination against transgender girls and women in sports.

Decisions in Illinois and North Carolina to reprint yearbooks with white nationalist photos have prompted a First Amendment debate.

Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy helps very vulnerable students succeed in high school—and beyond.

Income has an enormous impact on young people's educational experiences with technology, just as it does on every other aspect of school life.

Students gather at a gun control rally at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on March 14th, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

In his new book, John Warner argues that we can't fix how we teach writing unless we also fix a toxic mode of high school assessment.

A later start time of the school day is linked to better grades.

Research suggests that being surrounded by well-off peers in not-too-intense academic environments can lead to lifetime gains.

The unique teaching model, piloted in Minneapolis, focuses on students' strengths and teachers' relationship with the classroom.

In the first year of a new program, a large San Diego school district experienced small victories—despite some growing pains.

Instead of making students memorize facts, we should teach them to ask questions.

With her pioneering courses, Annie Delgado is filling in the gaps left by more traditional curricula.

Recovery high schools have been shown to have positive effects on students who struggle with addiction. So why aren't there more of them?

Students march the last leg of a 50-mile journey into the hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to call attention to gun violence on March 28th, 2018, in Janesville, Wisconsin

No children were harmed in the incident, which comes just two weeks after a gunman killed 17 students at a Florida high school.

A controversial new program segregates students in the cafeteria by grade point average and attendance as an incentive to boost achievement.

With a new school year underway in Charlottesville, here's how teachers are addressing the recent violence.

Schools whose graduation rates are rising are simultaneously losing many students to charter schools and schools in other parts of town.

Noah Davis talks to Yext CEO Howard Lerman about finding friends to work with, the importance of great teachers, and the balance between intelligence and execution.

Noah Davis talks to Scott Aaronson—named by SuperScholar as one of the 30 smartest people alive—about the unpopularity of nerds, the value of skipping grades, and why Shakespeare isn't the worst.

In 2014, the GED Testing Service rolled out a new assessment meant to measure not just high school equivalency but also career- and college-readiness skills. The questions below are designed to be very similar to those you might find on a GED exam today.

Common Core and big business have combined to make the lot of the upwardly mobile high school dropout even more dire.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.