Graduation ceremonies for high schools in Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Basalt will be held Sunday, May 23, 2004, a week earlier than usual. The Roaring Fork School Board approved the change in the ...

Persistent failure to meet performance targets for graduating more students should carry serious consequences. Last month, the triumphant chords of “Pomp and Circumstance” echoed in auditoriums across ...

Illinois has some of the lowest high school graduation standards in the country, a new national study shows, with students here required to take fewer years of math, English and science than peers ...

Clark County School District officials, using a new formula for calculating graduation rates, say the number of students who finished high school was up 1.2 percent for the 2003-04 academic year. Of ...

If we promise to make a better world, as graduation speakers urge us to do, it seems that we should be able to urge them to make graduation a better day. It doesn't take much to make everyone happy.

Ample parking. About 5,000 stadium seats for all the loved ones and friends. And, oh yeah, air conditioning to keep cool on what is almost always a hot summer day. After much deliberation, Pennridge ...

The nation’s abysmal high school graduation rate for some minority students is often obscured and ignored because of weak state oversight, loopholes in federal education law, and poor methods of ...

Eric Barnes traveled a rocky road on his way to a high school diploma. On the path, he encountered homelessness, illegal drugs and jail. Several failed attempts convinced him he lacked what it took to ...

It means this year’s seniors will be the last to experience the traditional outdoor graduation at familiar Poppy Yoder Field in Perkasie next June. “There are so many advantages to going to Stabler ...

It's time to plan for Project Graduation 2004, an all-night, alcohol-and-drug-free party for 2004 Broken Arrow High School graduates. The first general meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the BAHS ...

With a looming Sept. 8 deadline to sign up on Banner for fall graduation, Lacy Alford, an officer in the University’s Office of Admissions and Records, is concerned about an unusually small number of ...