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Policing schools in Tulsa

A two-part series by the Tulsa World analyzes crime on public school campuses. Since 2005, Tulsa schools have called city police more than 9,450 times. Reasons for the calls include […]
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Disparity found in college choices for students in state-funded program

Students in a state-funded program that sends them from the city to suburban high schools are far less likely to attend top-tier colleges than are the suburban residents of the […]
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Athletes' SAT scores lag at major colleges and universities

An investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that football and men’s basketball players on the nation’s big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates. […]
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Dramatic improvements in test scores raise questions

Some Georgia schools made astonishing improvements when their failing students were re-tested, according to an analysis of testing data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The highly unusual turnarounds raise questions about […]
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Fixing D.C.'s Schools: The Charter Experiment

A series by The Washington Post takes a hard look at charter schools in Washington, D.C. Approximately one-third of city's children attend these independent, nonprofit schools. The investigation shows that […]
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Industrial pollution impacting air quality at nearby schools

USA TODAY's Blake Morrison and Brad Heath have published a package of stories using government data to examine the air quality of American schools located near industrial plants. They found […]
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Certain majors find large clusters of student athletes

USA TODAY looked at the majors of more than 9,000 junior and senior athletes in football, baseball, softball, and men's and women's basketball and found high rates of concentrations of […]
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NYU campus crime reports are misleading

A report by Marc Beja and Adam Playford of Washington Square News (at New York University) brings to light issues with NYU's reporting of campus crime statistics.  Due to how […]
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Charter schools paid millions for absent students

An investigation by Thomas Hargrove and Gavin Off of Scripps News Service found that "taxpayers pay millions of dollars every month to educate tens of thousands of high school students […]
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Atlanta-area school districts fail to enforce vaccination requirements

While most schools in the Atlanta area meet the Georgia state standard for vaccination requirements, Alison Young of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that at least 99 schools' kindergartners and 81 […]
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