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  • Survey: Most kids are cheaters

    BY DAVID CRARY, Associated Press    NEW YORK -- In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethics.    Educators reacting to the findings questioned any suggestion that today's young people are less honest than previous generations, but...read more...
    Posted on: Dec 1 2008 - 06:00:00 AM

    High-schoolers under pressure

      Here's a multiple-choice question for the families of high school students facing yet another round of SATs and other standardized tests.    Why has the college application process grown so stressful and all-consuming?    A. It's supply and demand: There's a record number of graduating seniors heading off to college, just as some colleges and universities are capping or rolling back their...read more...
    Posted on: Oct 7 2008 - 06:00:00 AM

    Advice for the school 'leap years'

      Eleven-year-old Talya Carness is counting on her older brother, Noah, to help her get ready for the transition to Palmetto Middle School next year.   After she gets her class schedule this summer, "I'm going to go to school with my brother and maybe one of my friends and go to find our classes."   Having her own version of middle-school MapQuest will help Talya get over at least one set of...read more...
    Posted on: Jul 29 2008 - 06:00:00 AM

    Miami-Dade high school grad rate low

    BY KATHLEEN McGRORY, kmcgrory@miamiherald.com Fewer than half of Miami-Dade's public school students graduate from high school on time, according to a national report released Tuesday. The local figures are in step with what experts say are abysmally low graduation rates in the country's 50 largest cities. Of the grouping, Miami ranked near the bottom, with the nation's 16th-lowest graduation rate. The report,...read more...
    Posted on: Apr 3 2008 - 06:00:00 AM

    Competition spurs extra tutoring

      Two days a week, Kelly Saco works out with a private fitness coach. Once a week, she takes pointers from a batting coach. She may play as many as three softball games in a Saturday tournament. And she studies late into weeknights for the slew of advanced placement classes she is taking as a senior at Palmetto High School. "There were times, especially when I was a junior, when I was doing homework until 3 a.m., and...read more...
    Posted on: Mar 29 2008 - 09:30:00 PM

    Weston students make MTV

    BY NIRVI SHAH, nshah@MiamiHerald.com     Journalists are usually the ones confined to the edges of the red carpet shouting questions to the stars.    But at a Davie movie theater Thursday night, it was the student journalists from Weston's Cypress Bay High School in the limelight: stepping out of limousines, wearing teen-chic sparkly dresses and jackets, and striding down the walk of fame to the...read more...
    Posted on: Mar 28 2008 - 06:00:00 AM

    Cheerleader dies in breast surgery

    By KEVIN DEUTSCH, The Palm Beach Post    Stephanie Kuleba had a charmed life: captain of the varsity cheerleading squad at West Boca High, a nearly perfect grade-point average, good looks and a ticket to the University of Florida, where she would start her journey toward becoming a medical doctor.    Her friends said she was "perfect," so when Kuleba died Saturday of complications from breast...read more...
    Posted on: Mar 25 2008 - 02:45:00 PM
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