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Wake school leaders want to launch three high school academies this fall aimed at providing more intense training for foreign-born students who struggle with English.

As high schools graduate more students than ever and universities become increasingly competitive, college candidates have hatched a new strategy for gaining admission: apply to more schools, even those they are not likely to attend.

RALEIGH - North Carolina high school students are dropping out in increasing numbers despite more efforts to keep them in school, prompting frustrated education leaders to call for raising the minimum dropout age from 16 to 18.

When Jay Schalin asserted in his Jan. 1 Point of View article "Misguided agenda for universities" that "the presence of disengaged students will only lessen a high school's ability to focus on students who are interested in learning," he skimmed over the larger problem of the falling educational standards caused by such policy initiatives.

A Wake County judge said Thursday he will make the state surrender as much as $768 million that will be used to buy new computers for every school district in North Carolina.

Kristin Collins, Staff Writer
The debate over immigration often dwells on keeping illegal immigrants from slipping into the country, but when it comes to Hispanic youths who are already here, an opposite concern arises -- too many are slipping away.

The Wake school board asks for state money for more teachers or waivers on class size.

Some N.C. colleges and universities have begun to embrace greener living with composting, biodiesel fuels, solar energy and locally grown food in the cafeteria.

In 11 states, over half of students live in poverty. WASHINGTON - For the first time in more than 40 years, the majority of children in public schools in the South are poor, according to a report released today.

RALEIGH - High school dropouts are costing North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars each year, according to a new report, but there's sharp disagreement on what is the best way to solve the problem.

Idealistic recruits fill need for specialized instructors in poor districts. DURHAM - When he graduated from college, Andrew Doyle walked away from an investment banking job that promised long hours and a comfortable salary. He instead chose an even harder job for about half the pay -- teaching high school math.

RALEIGH - Women's colleges have been folding or going coed in this country since the late 1960s, when women were allowed in universities in large numbers. There are just 51 women's colleges left in the United States,

As the number of low-income students soars, the system finds it hard to spread them evenly among the schools. Now, up to half of a school's students may come from low-income families

Twenty years ago, bipolar disorder was considered a disease of adults and a rare one at that. Now psychiatrists are increasingly willing to make the diagnosis -- and at younger and younger ages.

A lot of people have worried about the Parker sisters. Their father was murdered when they were little.