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As news spreads that teens who pledge chastity have lots more kinky sex, millions of aging boomers ask: Where was Bush when I was in high school?
By Bill Maher
April 1, 2005
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A new series about sex -- on Showtime this weekend -- dares to make movies for teens by teens.
By Amy Benfer
February 14, 2003
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ACLU lawyer Graham Boyd discusses the impact of Thursday's Supreme Court decision to allow drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular school activities.
By Janelle Brown
June 28, 2002
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His intemperate remarks in a crucial school drug-testing case clearly betray unacceptable bias.
By Eric Blumenson
April 22, 2002
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In 1998, at age 35, Jim Morris, a high school teacher and baseball coach, made a bet with his young players that would catapult him from a tryout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays all the way to the major leagues.
Read by Kevin O'Rourke
April 3, 2001
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In the wake of school shootings, state legislatures are considering laws to crack down on harassment and violence in schools. How will they tell the bullies from the victims?
By Fiona Morgan
March 15, 2001
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An Illinois public school has achieved stunning success by admitting only gifted students and lavishing them with resources. But is this fair?
By Meredith Maran
January 24, 2001
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Since when is "Hotel California" poetry?
By Sara Hazlewood
September 13, 2000
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We point you to the highlights in a true-crime chronology of the high school killing spree
By Daryl Lindsey
May 17, 2000
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What kind of kid would break up with his mother? Mine, apparently.
By Amy Sunshine
March 16, 2000
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I have saved him all my life, but now there are too many miles between me and the paraded condoms, the muffled awe.
By Chris Colin
March 10, 2000
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A filmmaker relives the hysterics of high school in a serialized short film she's screening online.
By Janelle Brown
February 25, 2000
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Choosing a high school was a lot easier when you didn't get to choose.
By Merle Kessler
January 27, 2000
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"Ophelia Speaks," a book by teens for teens, talks back to adults who think they know what's up. This teen says it doesn't speak to her.
By Lillie Wade
September 15, 1999
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He's gotta have it in this male-masturbation comedy, but the still unreleased "Coming Soon" shows that girls need their fun, too.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
July 9, 1999
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My daughter's eighth-grade graduation is a ritual like none I've ever experienced.
By Sallie Tisdale
June 17, 1999
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The Georgia shooting is sure to inspire another torrent of clueless media tea-leaf reading.
By James Poniewozik
May 20, 1999
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A battle between parents and gay-rights advocates may be a preview of the country's next great culture war.
By Ira Eisenberg
June 1, 1998
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When you find yourself dancing with the man who used to be Eddie, your eighth-grade boyfriend, why do you feel 15 years old?
By Lori Leibovich
May 26, 1998
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No lover but the first will ever know me as both a child and a woman.
By Lori Leibovich
February 13, 1998
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All I really need to know I learned in high school from Robert Fulghum.
By Rebecca Ransom
November 6, 1997
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Did Glen Ridge raise its sons to be rapists?
By Leora Tanenbaum
August 13, 1997
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It's true, says one teenager -- teachers are being pushed over the edge by the savagery of their students.
By Nishat Kurwa
August 6, 1997
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A stint teaching writing to high school students leaves the author wondering why girls still haven't learned how to dream.
By Sallie Tisdale
July 1, 1997
When the drug war invades the chess club
Justice Kennedy should recuse himself
"The Oldest Rookie"
Banning the bullies
The perfect high
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