High Schools

New research sheds light on which children have greater access to guns and are most likely to use them. The results are alarming.

Texas education officials have suggested slavery be considered a side issue when teaching the Civil War.

The explosion occurred at about 8 p.m. while construction work was going on in a sixth-floor laboratory, a police spokesman said.

Newsweek's 2015 High School Rankings recognizes the achievements of the best public high schools in the United States for college readiness.

A map that shows the locations of the top 100 schools both overall and with poverty level taken into account.

A phrase referring to President Reagan’s rhetoric as “bellicose” was also removed.

Random testing for weed is not only costly, it may even lead to more dangerous drug use.

Two teachers were admitted to hospital, where doctors found they had ingested a huge quantity of marijuana.

Two small Nevada schools with vastly different kids are saving lives one tackle at a time

We’re shaking up the way we rank America’s top high schools

Thomas Jefferson High School is a mecca for science and technology in suburban Virginia

The Manhattan school that’s narrowing the achievement gap for immigrant teens

For the first time in a century, schools are getting a makeover

Lectures are so old school; the Maker Movement is reinventing education

Look at what parts of the country produce the best schools in the country, and what poverty rate they have to contend with

Our rankings aim to identify the public high schools in the U.S. that do the best job of preparing students for college and overcome the obstacles posed by socioeconomic inequality

The question, "What Are America’s Top Schools?" has different answers depending on whether or not student poverty is taken into account.