After graduating, young people enter an often enjoyable, but also challenging, period of new experiences.
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A review of nearly 100 years of high school yearbooks from Salinas High School in California showcases a nostalgic, not always accurate, version of high school.
Courts and universities should distinguish between students who won’t pay and those who can’t – and help them to pay.
Honor your values, invest in yourself and don’t forget your ‘happy circle.’
Colleges point to certain statistics when they talk about where their graduates land. But what might they be leaving out? A career education specialist weighs in.
An expert in young people’s health and safety at large-scale events recommends talking to your friends before you party. How will you support each other?
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. But he also insisted that young people cherish those fleeting moments of joy.
Latino youths often feel more at home in after-school programs and in the community than they do in school. A sociologist explores why.
Taking a job while in college may put graduation out of reach for some students.
Some states fund their public colleges based on how well the schools perform on key metrics. New research raises questions about how that affects outcomes for students from different racial groups.
A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?
Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
‘White fragility’ plays a strong role in denying Black high school students valedictorian or salutatorian status.
Washington has made all states use these tests to evaluate students, teachers, principals, schools and entire school systems for nearly two decades.
As long as teachers are creative and resourceful, kids will keep learning. What’s less clear is how schools will make up for the lost time if they remain closed for several months or longer.
At a special commencement ceremony for first-generation college graduates, a dean gave a speech made up of nothing but questions.
More schools are deciding to scrap the tradition of naming a valedictorian – just as students from diverse backgrounds are becoming the first of their background to win the honor.
More students must acquire IT skills in order to secure jobs with upward mobility, according to a researcher who developed an index that shows a dramatic growth in ‘IT intensive’ jobs.
A few years ago, a folklorist started gathering data on the creative ways graduates were embellishing their caps. From student debt to immigration, some themes quickly emerged.
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