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Daily Mail
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Her face bloodied and battered, this is Bethany James, the latest victim of the pupil-on-pupil violence blighting Britain's schools.
The appalling injuries inflicted on the 15-year-old are shocking enough. But what is more horrifying is that they were..
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Reuters
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Telling girls that boys are better than they are at mathematics can irritate them so much that it negatively impacts their performance, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers from three U.S. universities found that the threat of stereotypes could creat..
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www.nbc10.com
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A public high school has suspended three 16-year-old girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word "vagina" during a reading from "The Vagina Monologues."
Their defiant stand is being applauded by the author of the well-known feminist play, who said..
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CNN
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Math whizzes and other prodigies need not apply unless they can demonstrate dexterity with a pair of chopsticks under new entrance requirements announced by a Japanese girls' school on Wednesday...
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USA Today
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At last June's graduation at Franklin High School just outside of Milwaukee, three of the four students who tied for valedictorian were girls. Among the National Honor Society members, 76% were girls. And girls comprised 85% of the students on Franklin's..
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SF Gate
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If a new girls bathroom hadn't been built at the N.V. Massaquoi School in this capital city's largest slum, 8-year-old Shalom Venson may never have returned to school.
Before the restroom was installed in November, the elementary school's few female..
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News 24
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The rules at Oprah Winfrey's ultra-posh school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg are apparently so strict they make a reformatory look like a holiday resort.
That's the word from upset parents, who say the school rules make it difficult for them to k..
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Christian Science Monitor
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At the end of each school year, when she says goodbye and wishes her students success in high school, Martha Mohulo can't help but worry. A veteran primary school teacher in Soweto, she knows the dangers lurking in this sprawling, struggling township - p..
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New York Times
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It’s hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it’s just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs..
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