Kids who are exposed to music perform better in school: students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of community.

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Intel scores high, in large part for putting money into science and technology education for high school and college students and adults.

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The reason for this is because, according to the Department of Education, high school students are not technically enrolled in a degree-granting program because they do not yet have a college diploma, even though they are earning college credits.

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One of the most pressing problems in our education system today is the high number of students who do not complete high school.

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Last year, the Department of Education changed the date of its high-school notifications so that students were informed in mid-February about which public schools had accepted them, including the specialized high schools.

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This week, Vice President Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach, Florida to talk to students and their parents about college.

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Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.

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Too many of our students are not graduating from high school, and they never receive the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in higher education or in the workplace.

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