High school
hideHigh school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular the United Kingdom, Northern America and also Oceania) to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term "high school" originated in Scotland, Great Britain with the world's oldest being the Royal High School (Edinburgh) in 1505, and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop their state education systems.
The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, the English High School founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1821. The precise stage of schooling provided by a high school differs from country to country, and may vary within the same jurisdiction. In all of New Zealand and Malaysia along with parts of Australia and Canada, high school is synonymous with secondary school, and encompasses the entire secondary stage of education.
For more information about High school, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
News tagged with high school
High school football player in Missouri with Down Syndrome scores big
Sep 20, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
0
Matt Ziesel doesn't stray far from coach Dan McCamy on the sidelines during St. Joseph Benton High School's freshman football games. He likes to stay within earshot.
High school students' paper published in prestigious college math journal
Jan 15, 2009 |
2.8 / 5 (8) |
1
A paper written by four students from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey, entitled Ethanol: Not All It Seems To Be has been published in the January 2009 issue of The Mathematical Association of America's ...
Do good looks get high school students good grades?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (5) |
0
Do personal traits predict success in school? If so, which dimension of one's outward appearance can tell the most about academic achievement? The answers to these questions are found in a new study by researchers from the ...
Know your text-messaging limits before being caught at school
Sep 04, 2008 |
3.3 / 5 (6) |
0
Beneath the desk, agile fingers flit across the keypad. Above, eye contact with the teacher never breaks. The cell-phone text message is sent, unnoticed. Or noticed.
Social skills, extracurricular activities in high school pay off later in life
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
It turns out that being voted "Most likely to succeed" in high school might actually be a good predictor of one's financial and educational success later in life.
Study: High school teachers influence student views of evolution, creationism
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 01, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
25
College students' views about evolution and creationism are often shaped by what they learned in their high school biology classes, according to a University of Minnesota study published in the May issue of BioScience, the jo ...
Epidemic of student cheating can be cured with changes in classroom goals
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 09, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Schools have the ability to drastically reduce cheating among their students - all they need to do is follow the relatively simple and inexpensive solutions suggested by research.
Scientists using Second Life island to help high school students learn earth science
Apr 16, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
A mysterious island that moves through time. Travelers in search of answers. It sounds something like the science fiction television show "Lost," but it also describes a new approach to teaching earth sciences ...
She's going back to school but can she read?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 04, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
1
Five million students will return to Canadian schools this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to graduate high school.
'Virtual students' go to school without being in school
Oct 20, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
1
Eleventh-grader Philip Marten's second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, third hour, fourth hour and the rest of his school day are spent not at school but at home in Shawnee, Kan.
Study: Higher education playing bigger role in gender wage gap
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 09, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (6) |
6
While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research.
Socioeconomic Desegregation Alone Is Not Effective in Improving Classroom Performance
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
3.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Although past research has linked academic achievement gains to socioeconomic desegregation in schools, a new analysis reveals some hidden academic and psychological risks of integrating low-income students in schools with ...
Teens Fueled by Caffeine Use Too Much Technology and Don’t Get Enough Sleep
Jul 20, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fueled by caffeine teens are up late at night, and they aren’t just focusing on homework. Web surfing, text messaging and gaming are keeping them up for hours into the night, according to a recent study by ...
Competition for College Admissions Perpetuates Class Divide in Higher Education
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
2.8 / 5 (4) |
1
Increased competition for college admissions combined with the heightened emphasis on test scores in recent decades has fueled the growth of class inequality in American higher education, according to sociologist Sigal Alon ...
Second concussion can be serious for young athletes
Sep 22, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sustaining a second concussion shortly after a first one can lead to serious problems for young athletes, making it extremely important for players to be correctly diagnosed after being hit in the head.
