News Air pollution poses health threat: Valley traps wildfire smoke, Fresno Unified prohibits outdoor physical activity Friday, September 21, 2007 By The Feather at Fresno Christian High School in Fresno, CA While residents of Fresno and Clovis mistook the smell of acrid smoke for a neighborhood fire, the assumption proved to be a false alarm. A thick haze settled over the San Joaquin Valley on Sept. 7. full story

[ArticleImageHyperLink] New Grading Policy Causes Changes Friday, September 21, 2007 By Blueprint at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, MD Montgomery County has implemented a new grading policy for high schoolers for the new school year. full story

[ArticleImageHyperLink] Raising the bar for entry to bars? Friday, September 21, 2007 By West Side Story at West High School in Iowa City, IA So, a 21-year-old, a 20-year-old and a 19-year-old walk into a bar…and the latter two are unceremoniouslykicked out. Aside from being a poor punch line, this could be a reality for Iowa City in the ne full story

2007 Drug Dog Policy: New policy set for students and staff at S.D. Thursday, September 20, 2007 By The Eagle Eye at Southern Door High School in Brussels, WI The 2007 school year has begun, and many things at SDHS have changed. One of the biggest changes is the drug dog policy. Changes in the policy were explained to the students during the first days of full story

Staff members join about 750 district-wide to protest unification of Arizona school districts for K-12 merger Tuesday, September 18, 2007 By Demon Dispatch at Greenway High School in Phoenix, AZ A rally to raise awareness of the recent redistricting proposals involved about 95 Greenway teachers, administrators and support staff who joined approximately 750 district-wide from the other nine GU full story

Features And the beat goes on Friday, September 21, 2007 By The Lariat at Friendswood High School in Friendswood, TX You see them march through the halls every Friday morning. You hear the all-too-familiar drum cadence “Heard You Twice” ring from classroom to classroom. You feel the rhythmic pulse reverberate off full story

Sobol Goes Corny Friday, September 21, 2007 By The Online Hoofbeat at Charles D. Owen High School in Black Mountain, NC This summer, high school students held all kinds of jobs, but none as “corny” as Michael Sobol’s.Sobol grew an acre and a half by himself. “This was not just a corn-growing exercise. He had to negoti full story

[ArticleImageHyperLink] English Language Learners get help through school program Thursday, September 20, 2007 By Demon Dispatch at Greenway High School in Phoenix, AZ Imagine being in a place that you know nothing about, don’t speak the language and home is nowhere in sight.Sounds scary, right? It was -- and still is -- to students who enter American schools with E full story

[ArticleImageHyperLink] A taste of alternative medicine: Natural herbs, plants better for body than ‘altered’ medicine Thursday, September 20, 2007 By Demon Dispatch at Greenway High School in Phoenix, AZ Nowadays, Americans pop over-the-counter pills like they’re candy. Aspirin, Sudafed, ibuprofen. Although these medicines seem to help by relieving pain, they actually can cause severe damage to the ki full story

[ArticleImageHyperLink] September has plenty of strange holidays: Some of them are no longer celebrated Wednesday, September 19, 2007 By Spotlight at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, IN Everyone has been taught to know about certain holidays. We have Martin Luther King’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc. All these holidays have something in common: it is public knowledge what the full story

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