This article is one of the winning submissions from the first annual New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. Imagine you are an 18-year-old high school graduate preparing to embark on the terrifying unpredictability of life and college ahead. Tax day arrives and you are desperately trying to file, send or gather the money you … Read more
Students are increasingly leaving school — not with a degree, but with a mental health crisis. A new Gallup survey has reported that 41% of students who are currently enrolled in a postsecondary program have considered stopping their education in the past six months. The number has gone up significantly from the first year of … Read more
Caroline Carlson knew exactly which special person she wanted to dress up as for her school’s “Superhero Day” — her very own teacher, Miss. Jaime Deigh. Deigh is a second-grade teacher at R.E. Baker Elementary in Bentonville, Arkansas, and has been teaching at the school for eight years, Deigh told Fox News Digital. Each year, Bentonville Public … Read more
They’re not in good spirits. Nearly 30 schoolgirls have been hospitalized with anxiety attacks after allegedly playing with Ouija boards at their school in Colombia. “There were 28 possible cases of anxiety in school students,” said Hugo Torres, head of the Galeras Educational Institution in Galeras, where the incident took place, per Jam Press. According … Read more
They paid it backward. Three high school seniors from rural Texas raised more than a quarter of a million dollars so their 80-year-old school custodian could retire again. Callisburg High School students Greyson Thurman, Marti Yousko and Banner Tidwell launched a GoFundMe campaign for the janitor, “Mr. James,” on Feb. 15. Thurman posted a TikTok … Read more
One sibling has been left scratching their head at their younger brother’s Year 5 maths exam. The question, shared to Reddit, asks students to figure out how many pages are in a book. “Klein read 30 pages of a book on Monday and one eighth of the book on Tuesday,” the question read. “He completed … Read more
He wants to wrap this case up. A Texas college student went ham after learning someone in his dorm has been stealing his food deliveries — and he’s cooking up a revenge plot. Ethan Pham, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, has been documenting his journey to catching the taco thief on … Read more
How low can you go? A graduation party in Peru turned calamitous after the dance floor collapsed beneath the teen revelers, creating a scene like something out of an apocalypse movie. Footage of the “underground dance scene” has amassed 4.2 million views on TikTok. The fiasco occurred while teens were celebrating their high school graduation … Read more
Furious parents have lashed out at a Sydney high school after up to 70 students were barred from attending their Year 10 graduation because they were wearing fake nails. The students from Mackellar Girls Campus on the northern beaches were instead placed in a separate room and banned from entering the main hall where the … Read more
It’s a nude year for these soon-to-be vets. A group of veterinary students at the University of Sydney posed naked for a cheeky and charitable calendar photoshoot. The third-year veterinary students got frisky in the shoot with strategically-placed kittens, puppies, piglets and horses for the calendar to raise funds for the Australian Red Cross. The … Read more
Soon, high school graduates will be making monumental decisions that will determine their future quality of life. These decisions include whether to attend college; if so, where; and what degree program to pursue. Research shows that while not guaranteeing career success, a college degree often affords students more control over their destiny and enables a … Read more
The job market is great today, but when the class of 2027 tosses their graduation hats into the air and begin searching for work, the world may be a different place. Worry not — we’ve got you covered. Using data from the experts at the World Economic Forum and Bureau of Labor Statistics, here are … Read more
With student and parental concerns about college at a fever pitch, the best advice on today’s top colleges and universities may come from college students themselves. “They’re the experts of their own experiences,” said Rob Franek, lead author of the Princeton Review’s “Best 388 Colleges for 2023” (Aug. 2022, $24.99). “Things affect students academically and … Read more
They’re sitting pretty — at least in the classroom. New research suggests that attractive female college students accustomed to earning high grades in person aren’t making the same marks during remote learning. A Swedish study, published in the journal Economics Letters, probed the impact of a student’s looks on their performance, both in the classroom and … Read more
Colleges across America are warning students of “cultural appropriation” as they prepare to dress up for Halloween, giving tips on how to avoid offending others. Universities such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio University, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Michigan are all encouraging students to choose a Halloween costume that … Read more
For this super sexy teacher, school is officially out. Yeimmy Ilias Isaza, an educator from Barranquilla, Colombia with over 393,000 social media followers, was reportedly fired from her position as an instructor after her ex-school’s administrators caught an eyeful of her sultry Instagram snaps. “It’s not just only believing in you, it’s about working on you,” … Read more
A Scottish teacher shares her “teacher fits” for the week on TikTok in videos taken from her classroom — and her outfits have divided the internet. TikTok user @victoriaren97 — who has 22,600 followers and 337,000 likes — is seen in her videos donning short skirts and shirt dresses, mostly with tights underneath as her … Read more
Adam Sandler’s fashion school is now in session. Students across the country are donning ill-fitting T-shirts and baggy shorts to mimic the A-lister’s roll-out-of-bed vibe at official school-sanctioned days — complete with looks from his 1990s blockbusters like “Happy Gilmore,” “The Waterboy” and “The Wedding Singer.” The “Adam Sandler Day” trend has spread across the … Read more
When Will Germaine, 20, of Valley Stream, NY, recently needed professional attire for his new role as student government president, the community health student at Hofstra University didn’t shop online or drive to the nearest mall. Instead, he cruised the racks at Hofstra’s “career closet” at the campus health and wellness center. Since opening this … Read more
A law professor shared on Twitter the pieces of an ingenious cheating system involving pens used by one of her students, garnering enough attention that the student revealed how he accomplished his feat. Cheating returned to the news during the pandemic as remote learning made it easy for students to look up answers on exams. However, the … Read more