A gunman at the Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains, New York high school has taken the principal hostage. The high school in upstate New York is currently on lock down and current reports indicate that students are safe. The school is about 90 miles north of New York City.

Early Friday morning a student at Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach, SC was fatally shoot to death by the school's resource officer. From apparent reports the officer shot the student after he was attacked by the student.

Despite what the DHS may want you to believe, duct tape has many other uses besides taping off your windows and doors in the event of a biological attack. In this case, it's Duck brand duct tape's 9th annual Duct Tape Prom Dress contest.

Ed Thomas, a long-time Aplington-Parkersburg High School athletic director and football coach, was shot in the school's weight room this morning. He later died at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, IA. The school is in Parkersburg, about 80 miles northeast of Des Moines.

Shades of those old puzzles where you had to find hidden images in a picture. A high school yearbook from Shaker Heights, OH, has been "recalled," sort of, when it was discovered that the student artist who designed the cover secreted the words "F All Y'all."

A western Sydney high school is in lockdown after five boys armed with baseball bats and machetes allegedly went on a rampage.

The High School of Glasgow Selects Bloxx to Protect Staff and Students Online

Bloxx, the enterprise web filtering specialist, today announced that The High School of Glasgow has deployed Bloxx web filtering technology to monitor pupil and staff online activity and to provide enhanced security for its IT network.

Aside Productions is a local theatre company in The Woodlands that hopes to expand interest in playwriting in the area.

Girls in high school take as many math courses as boys, influenced by close friends and peers who are doing well in school. More than boys, girls look to their close friends when they make important decisions, such as whether to take math and what math classes to take, confirming how significant peers are during adolescence.

Sony announced that it will invite 30 high school students from the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou and Chengdu to Japan in cooperation with the All China Youth Federation, China's largest youth group, as part of its "Sony Student Project Abroad (China) 2007" program. It is a 12 day program running from July 30th to August 10th.

The incidence of catastrophic head injuries in football is dramatically higher at the high school level than at the college level, according to a study published in the July issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine.