By ALICIA A. CALDWELL AND JIM KUHNHENN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.
The policy change, described to The Associated Press by [...]
Michelle Obama has revealed how her husband the President gave up drugs at a young age because he realised he ‘could do more with his life’.
The First Lady spoke about Barack Obama during an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to promote her new cookbook.
She was asked by host Jon Stewart yesterday about recent claims the President’s high school and college years.
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Even with the trillion-dollar student debt bubble ready to pop andcollege expenses soaring, a promising new survey shows teens aren’t ready to give up on funding their education just yet.
“Today’s high school students are tackling the escalating costs of college by saving and becoming more educated about their costs and choices,” said Roger Michaud, chairman of the College Savings Foundation.
For the last two years, CSF has asked more than 500 16- and 17-year-olds [...]
By Neale Gulley
February 6, 2012 9:15 AM EST
LE ROY, New York (Reuters) – State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community’s high school is safe.
Although the symptoms are typically associated with Tourette Syndrome, that has been ruled out in all but one case, causing fear [...]
by The American Dream
Are we raising the stupidest generation in American history? The statistics that you are about to read below are incredibly shocking. They indicate that U.S. high school students are basically as dumb as a rock. As you read the rest of this article, you will be absolutely amazed at the things that U.S. high school students do not know. At this point, it is really hard to argue [...]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to California’s policy of granting reduced, in-state tuition at its colleges and universities to graduates of its high schools who are illegal immigrants.
The justices turned down an appeal from lawyers for a conservative immigration-law group that contended “preferential treatment” for illegal immigrants violated federal immigration law. They cited a little-known provision in a 1986 [...]
“Scores Stagnate at High Schools”
By Stephanie Banchero, The Wall Street Journal
“New data show that fewer than 25% of 2010 graduates who took the ACT college-entrance exam possessed the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level courses, despite modest gains in college-readiness among U.S high-school students in the last few years.
“This is very appalling,” said Cynthia Schmeiser, ACT’s Education Division president and chief operating officer. “It suggests that the core courses they [...]
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