The importance of a high school diploma is increasing day by day. Indeed receiving a high school diploma is pretty important for pursuing a university degree as well as for future jobs. Nowadays you can get your high school diploma studying at an online high school. A lot of people prefer to get their education [...]
Not all people have the opportunity to receive a high school diploma. The reasons may be different. Homeschooling, immigration, personal problems and disability are some of the basic reasons. Another major reason is that many people have to work at an early age to earn their living. That’s why attending school becomes time-consuming and even [...]
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child,” once said George Bernard Shaw. Those who agree with this are supposedly eager to promote their child’s pursuit of knowledge. Indeed, schools serve as good providers of knowledge, but once your child gets old enough [...]
School administrators in Simsbury, a town in the U.S., and other high school districts now require their students to take tests to check whether they are drunk before they can attend school dances on campus. All students are required to breathe into a breathalyzer to see if they have drunk alcohol. Howstuffworks details how a [...]
High School Senior Shivani Sud has won a $100,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search for her project on colon cancer. As soon as computer chip manufacturer Intel and the Society for Science & the Public announced the names of the two winners in the contests at their gala in Washington, Indian-American Sud took [...]
Advanced Placement Test (AP) results are going down every year despite the fact that more and more students take the tests after finishing High School. Education Week reports that according to the data released by the New York City-based nonprofit organization, about 15 percent of High School graduates are getting a 3 out of possible [...]
McDonald’s trained employees will be getting credit toward their high school diplomas in Britain. However, it is up to each university and college to decide whether “to accept the corporate qualifications as grounds for admission,” Education Week reports. The fast-food chain had been granted approval to develop courses and set exams up to the standard [...]