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• U.S. high schoolers fall behind world peers in math, study says
• Boston high-schoolers stage anti-Trump walkout. A lesson in democracy?
• Supply of High-School Graduates to Decline

U.S. high schoolers fall behind world peers in math, study says Posted: 06 Dec 2016 01:06 PM PST U.S. high school students are falling further behind their global peers in mathematics and are treading water in reading and science, an ongoing survey on international education said on Tuesday. The triennial report by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development showed that 15-year-old U.S. students ranked 40th in the world in math last year out of 72 countries or cities. The U.S. average math score of 470 was down 17 points from 2009, and 20 points below the average of the countries taking part in the survey, known as the Program for International Student Assessment.

Boston high-schoolers stage anti-Trump walkout. A lesson in democracy? Posted: 06 Dec 2016 07:20 AM PST High school students from across Boston walked out of class Monday afternoon as part of a demonstration in which they called upon local, state, and federal authorities to protect them and underrepresented groups from US President-elect Donald Trump. Students marched to Beacon Hill and insisted, unsuccessfully, that they be permitted to deliver their list of demands to Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican who has said he voted neither for Mr. Trump nor anyone else running for president in last month's election. "I'm black and Muslim, so I'm scared for me and my mom and my family and all the Muslim people, too," Yusuf Jama, a 16-year-old freshman at Roxbury Preparatory High School, tells The Christian Science Monitor while standing on the third floor of the State House.

Supply of High-School Graduates to Decline Posted: 05 Dec 2016 09:01 PM PST The sharp decline in births during the Great Recession will result in a drop in the number of students graduating from U.S. high schools starting around 2024, a phenomenon likely to translate into additional pressure on U.S. colleges already struggling to fill classrooms and employers seeking university graduates. The dip follows 20 years of growth that saw the number of high-school graduates increase by 30% between 1995 and 2013, according to a report released Tuesday from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. The projected decline is driven by a sharp drop in the number of white high-school students, which will be somewhat offset by the growth among Hispanics.

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