“Get off the phone!” is becoming a common phrase in American high schools around the country. On average, I catch ten or more students with their phone every week. Some weeks are worse than others, but it seems that not a day goes by when I don’t see the tell tale phone-shaped bulge in a hoodie, or a glimpse of a brightly colored phone sticking out of someone’s pocket. The policy is “If you see a cell phone, confiscate it and turn it into the office.”

A Florida school board voted late Monday night to keep the name of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest at a majority black high school, despite opposition from a black board member.

FCPS says application deadline for class Of 2012 (Ninth Grade) summer round At Thomas Jefferson High School for Science And Technology Is June 30, 2008

The New South Wales Government is under fire over reports a Sydney high school scanned its students' fingerprints without parental consent.

James Wetz, Visiting Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, is presenting an edition of Dispatches tonight (Monday), addressing the design and organisation of UK secondary schools.

For the first time in history, the Siemens Competition, formerly the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition, was won by two females. The competition, which along with the Intel Competition are one of the two most prestigious competitions for high school science research in the United States. The Siemens Competition has two competitions, one for individual research and the other for team research. For the first time in history both the individual and team awards were won by women.

U.S. News and World Report released its annual America's Best High Schools list Friday, presenting the top 100 high schools in America. The list will be available on newsstands on December 3 with Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Va. topping the list.

Henry Ford Learning Institute (HFLI), Ford Motor Company Fund, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and community partners today announced a combined $11.5 million investment to launch a national network of small high schools modeled after Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, Mich.

University of Minnesota sociologists have found that the U.S. high school dropout rate is considerably higher than most people think -- with one in four students not graduating -- and has not improved appreciably in recent decades.

The gunman is in police custody after a peaceful end of Las Plumas High School Hostage situation in Oroville Union High School District in CA.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged the country's high schools to promote all-round development of students to lay a solid foundation for their future growth.

Football, one of the most popular sports in the United States, is also the leading cause of sports-related injuries. During the 2005-06 season, high school football players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally.