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Mark Wahlberg Earns High School Diploma
Mark Wahlberg Earns High School Diploma
Mark Wahlberg has finally gotten his high school diploma, at age 42, after dropping out in the ninth grade.The actor graduated after taking classes online for almost a year and "studying any chance I could get -- on the set, traveling for work and at home," he wrote in an essay for The Huffington Post.
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California Abuse Case Sparks Calls For Home-Schooling Oversight
Most states in the U.S do not require inspections or in-person testing for home-schools. The number of U.S children educated at home sits at about 1.7 million or 3 percent of that nation’s school age population. Lawmakers and advocacy groups are calling for more oversight of home schools after a California couple who had registered their house as the private Sandcastle School were charged with torturing and endangering their 13 children. David Turpin and his wife Louise ran the school out of...
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Mark Wahlberg Graduates High School At Age 42!
Mark Wahlberg graduates High School at age 42!
Mark Wahlberg has been a successful rapper and actor, but now he's also a high school graduate! Wahlberg previously dropped out of high school in the ninth grade, but the Ted actor has earned his diploma after taking online courses for the past year. The actor confirmed the news yesterday in a personal blog entry for the Huffington Post, and also said he may further his education by studying at...
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Students Protest School's Use of Online Curriculum Designed by Facebook Engineers
High school students at Brooklyn's Secondary School for Journalism staged a walkout last week to protest perceived "wrongdoings" at the school, which include the use of an online curriculum called "Summit Learning" that stresses independent learning. Schools across the nation have implemented this free web-based program, which was designed with the help of Facebook engineers and funded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. However, students at the Brooklyn high school — and at...
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Instead of Throwing Food Away, Indiana Elementary School Sends Uneaten Food Home With Needy Kids
Mother Nature Network reports that a new pilot program at an Indiana elementary school is changing the way leftovers are handled. The program takes food that normally would've gone to waste and turns it into meals for students in need. Woodland Elementary School in Elkhart, Indiana sends students home with insulated backpacks filled with frozen meals to feed them through the weekend. Woodland Elementary was selected for the pilot program specifically because of the high number of students who...
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Isis 'Misprint' In High School Yearbook Creates A Storm
after the school's yearbook misidentified the teen wearing a hijab as "Isis Phillips," the photo of a student at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga is sparking outrage online.
The student posted the photo of the yearbook page to Facebook. She captioned the photo:
"I am extremely saddened, disgusted, hurt and embarrassed that the Los Osos High School yearbook was able to get away with this. Apparently I am "Isis" in the yearbook. The school reached out to me and had the audacity to say...
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5 Utah Students Stabbed At High School By Classmate
On Tuesday, Five students were stabbed inside the boys' locker room of Mountain View High School in Utah and a 16-year-old student was taken into custody. The suspect, a straight A student with no record of disciplinary issues, stabbed himself in the neck before he was subdued with a Taser by an officer employed at the school. The student reportedly attacked his classmates around 8 a.m. as they were getting ready for physical education class. The student was not identified but a school district...
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'California Torture House' Was A Registered Private School
Following the disturbing discovery of 13 starving siblings held captive by their parents in Southern California, reports surfaced that the suburban home had been registered as a private school, raising questions about state oversight regarding homeschooling. California is one of 15 states that only require a private school affidavit to establish a "private school" as David Allen Turpin, the father of the 13 tortured children, had done for years. Rachel Coleman, executive director of the...
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Algeria Insitutes Nationwide Internet Blackouts To Prevent Students From Cheating
According to a report by Gizmodo, in an extreme attempt to prevent students from leaking high school diploma exams online, Algeria has begun instituting nationwide internet blackouts. The country plans to turn off all mobile and landline internet service across the country for an hour at a time during the exam period, with 11 blackouts scheduled for an hour after each exam begins. Schools offering the exams have also reportedly been equipped with metal detectors to make sure that no one,...
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Principal Resigns after Student Reporters Investigate her Credentials
An incoming high school principal has resigned in Kansas after student reporters investigated and raised questions about her credentials. The Pittsburg School Board accepted Amy Robertson’s resignation on Tuesday, saying she felt the decision was “in the best interest of the district ... in light of the issues that arose.” The resignation came less than a month after the Pittsburg Community Schools’ Board of Education hired Robertson -- on March 6 -- to become the head principal at...
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