U.S. high schools

Coach dies in freak accident impaled on the arm of a car-park gate when he turned to wave to a student while riding his bike home from practice.

A reported Marines t-shirt ban at an Illinois school was rescinded when the school realized the shirt was a Marines shirt and not just any t-shirt with guns on it. Here are the top five other dress code controversies that have made headlines in the nation.

There is a new data collection system in place for high school graduation rates, and the numbers for 2011 were released this week.

Eighth-graders and their parents descended on Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus near Lincoln Center Sunday, narrowing down their list of prospective high schools.

Seventy students at Stuyvesant High School caught cheating late last month on Regents exams will be allowed to retake the tests.

A panel of education experts will hold a discussion Thursday morning, examining methods of measuring the performance of city high schools.

At least 8,000 high school diplomas issued in Maryland were recalled after it was found that a word was misspelled, according to reports.

Class will be in session for at least another year for students and teachers of Grover Cleveland High School and Bushwick Community High School.

The high school valedictorian of a Florida high school will not be deported and will get a two-year reprieve, according to reports.

The Dream Act is a way for illegal immigrant children to gain citizenship, after attending high school and going through two years of college. Jessica Colotl is just such an example.

In an agreement between the teachers union and Central Falls High School, all teachers that were fired will have their jobs back.

While the first years of elementary schooling are mostly spent on ABCs, high school’s new focus may be best summarized as AAA: Attendance, Attachment, and Achievement.