Schools Can Help Obese Kids Shed Weight, Get Healthier

"Fewer middle school students were obese after three years at schools that emphasized exercise and nutrition compared with those that did nothing special."

Chinese Youths' Education Decisions Have Lifelong Effects

"Education through middle school has been compulsory and free in China since 2007, but it's upon leaving middle school that the problems start for poor and disadvantaged students. After that, families must foot the bill themselves, and poorer students are faced with the reality that high school may not be a viable option."

Cost of Progress at a Failing School

"Locke High represents both the opportunities and challenges of the Obama administration’s $3.5 billion effort, financed largely by the economic stimulus bill, to overhaul thousands of the nation’s failing schools."

How Time on the Field Helps Women in the Workforce

"In her paper titled, 'Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports,' Wharton business and public policy professor Betsey Stevenson offers empirical evidence that playing sports leads to more education and better employment opportunities."

Final Bell: Kansas City's Effort to Save Its Schools

"After years of foot-dragging, infighting and wild spending sprees, Kansas City is finally making a last-gasp attempt to save its school district by abruptly cutting it by half. School districts all over the country are wrestling with problems in urban centers, but Kansas City's plan has caught national attention because of its scope."

Microsoft's 'School of the Future' Graduates First Class

"Although the school's creative ambitions have been frustrated by high principal turnover, curriculum tensions and a student body unfamiliar with laptop computer culture, the school graduates its first senior class Tuesday with each student having been accepted to an institution of higher learning."

CDC: 1 in 5 High School Students Abuse Prescription Drugs

"A new report shows one in five high school students have taken a prescription drug that they didn't get from a doctor."

States to Establish Nationwide Standards for Students, Teachers

"States are expected to use the standards to revise their curriculum and tests to make learning more uniform across the country, eliminating inequities in education not only between states but also among districts. The standards also will ensure students transferring to a school district in a different state won't be far behind their classmates or have to repeat classes because they are more advanced."