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Next Nashville Stars...Facebook Changes...Cheerleading Champs

| Posted 12.21.2011 | Home

Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

Cutting Class: How Budget Cuts Are Really Affecting Students In Chicago Schools

Iemaan is a junior at Whitney Young Magnet School and a student reporter for The Mash, a weekly teen publication distributed to Chicagoland high schoo...

Snow, Sleeping In, And Shopping: Why Teens Love Winter

| Posted 12.19.2011 | Home

Snow days and snowboarding and spending time relaxing indoors -- these are a few of our favorite things! It may be tempting to start counting down the...

School Bus Brawl, Team Rivalries, And Pokémon: This Week's Juiciest High School News

| Posted 12.14.2011 | Home

Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

12-Year-Old Burglar Accidentally Leaves Homework Behind

AP | Posted 12.14.2011 | Home

LIBERTY, N.Y. -- A 12-year-old upstate New York boy may be wishing that his dog ate his homework. The owner said he arrived Sunday morning and discov...

'Special' Cheerleaders Bring House Down At Pep Rally

Posted 12.13.2011 | Home

With their big smiles, impressive dance moves (one member of the squad says she feels like she's in a Katy Perry music video), and school spirit, Boca...

Florida Teens Busted For Stealing Fish-Shaped Mailboxes

Posted 12.13.2011 | Home

It's been a week of bizarre high school thefts. While Los Angeles County schools were hit by tuba heists, a group of high school students in New Berli...

L.A. High School Hit By Tuba Heists

Posted 12.12.2011 | Home

Thefts of iPods, wallets and cellphones are, unfortunately, all too common in high schools -- but the latest high school theft trend has left Los Ange...

15 Things You Hear During Finals Week (And What They Really Mean!)

www.collegehumor.com | Posted 02.08.2012 | Home

"I Totally Just Failed That." (Means: "I Totally Just Did Better Than You On That")...

Teen Serves Drug-Laced Brownies To Teacher

Posted 12.09.2011 | Home

An 18-year-old student has been arrested for serving brownies to students and a teacher at New Milford High School -- and these weren't regular browni...

Is This Ad About Teen Drinking Too Scandalous?

Posted 12.08.2011 | Home

A new ad campaign has caused a ton of controversy this week. It's called "Control Tonight" (see the image to the left of this piece) and it was recent...

Teen Saves Bus Full Of Students!

AP | Posted 12.08.2011 | Home

TACOMA, Wash. -- An alert Washington state teenager likely prevented an accident when he woke up a sleeping bus driver who had nodded off at the wheel...

Fall 2011 High School Sports Snapshots (PHOTOS)

| BJ Vanderwoude | Posted 12.08.2011 | Home

This is a weekly column featuring videos and photos of the best moments from High School sports games from Varsity Networks. Have an awesome -- or hi...

School Excludes Lesbian Student From Yearbook For Wearing Tuxedo

Posted 12.08.2011 | Home

For her senior portrait, 17-year-old lesbian student Ceara Sturgis posed in a tuxedo, going against the school's requirement that girls wear dresses. ...

Confessions Of A Foreign Exchange Student

The Communicator, Community High School Newspaper | Posted 12.07.2011 | Home

I can’t even count how many times I’ve been asked “How does it feel to be an exchange student?” and how many different answers I’ve been giv...

Battling Robots; Bullies Back Off; Party Scandal!

| Posted 12.07.2011 | Home

Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

VIDEO: Students Respond To 'Sexting'

| Posted 12.07.2011 | Home

Is sexting really as common as it's made out to be? According to a recent study, only 1 percent of kids and teens between the ages 10 and 17 have shar...

Teen Beats Potato-Launching World Record

Tucson Citizen | Posted 12.07.2011 | Home

A Fountain Hills High School student’s feat of launching 17 potatoes through a tennis racket in three minutes has been accepted by Guinness World Re...

No Time For A Road Trip? Visit Colleges From Home!

| Lindsay Shoemake | Posted 12.06.2011 | Home

'Tis the season for cold weather, finals week and college visits. However, for some students, on-campus visits are sadly out of reach. Due to time con...

WATCH: North Carolina School Celebrates Ugly Sweater Day!

| Posted 12.06.2011 | Home

We all have those ugly holiday sweaters -- you know, the ones that were knit by your great-aunt, with reindeers, snowmen or dreidels prancing across t...

WATCH: Do You Have Acne? Amazing Makeup Tips From Teen Model

Posted 12.05.2011 | Home

Would you ever be able to bare your biggest insecurity for millions of viewers to watch on YouTube? 19-year-old model Cassandra Bankson did just that,...

Science-Loving Teens Take Home $100K!

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 02.04.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON — A high school student from California won a $100,000 scholarship Monday for research that created a tiny particle she likened to a ...

Are iPods Causing Permanent Hearing Damage? Students Investigate

| Posted 12.06.2011 | Home

Whether you're at a concert, in the car, or listening to your iPod, listening to loud music is a part of everyday life for most teens. It seems harmle...

AP Classes: Absolutely Preposterous Weapons of Mass Instruction

| Sophie W., San Diego, CA | Posted 12.03.2011 | Home

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Teenink.com. Weapons of Mass Instruction have been discovered in schools nationwide. Standardiza...

Foster Teen: 'I Was Put In A Psych Ward. I Wasn't Crazy'

| Anthony Turner | Posted 02.10.2012 | Home

This is a youth-written article from our friends at Represent Magazine, a platform for and by young people in foster care. It all started when I sa...