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Herald-Dispatch – Huntington High Principal Greg Webb said he cannot think of another high school team that the community has backed as faithfully as the Highlanders basketball program. He said it hit him when about 9,000 people attended the Highlanders’ nationally

What it takes to reach, teach middle schoolers
Boston Globe – RE MICHAEL JONAS’S “Junior high” (Ideas, Jan. 29): Students between ages 10 and 14 experience developmental growth comparable to that occurring from birth to age 3. Forcing a middle school student into a high school environment won’t eliminate normal

SUCCESS AT SCHOOLS: Outside the textbooks
Detroit Free Press – In 2008, the district will do the same when it opens a new high school. District spokesman Tim McAvoy said it was a matter of accommodating the diverse population at Troy’s schools and interest in a more diverse perspective among parents. Morse’s

Archived high school sports coverage
Baltimore Sun – Two stories that slipped under the radar recently, one hopeful, one not so much, provide yet another window into the soul of where high school athletics are and where they might be headed. A new Iowa State University study of 251 Iowa high school

Duvall leaving Blackman for Coffee County
Daily News Journal – The chants echoed across The Furnace at Blackman High School. The students were cheering for Mert Duvall , Blackman’s only athletic director since the school opened in 2000. At halftime of the Lady Blaze game with Warren County Friday, Duvall was

Broward school scene
Miami Herald – Ground was blessed and broken Wednesday at Archbishop Edward McCarthy High School, 5451 Flamingo Rd., Southwest Ranches, for the school’s new combined cafeteria and auditorium. The $4 million facility will feature a theater to stage assemblies, shows

High school stunned as RCMP investigate a popular teacher
The Province – A Port Coquitlam high-school teacher is facing a charge of sexual exploitation. Gordon Belec, an English 11 teacher at Terry Fox Secondary, faces one charge of sexual exploitation of a minor. Coquitlam RCMP received a complaint last Wednesday and the