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Ocvarsity Sports Staff, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
Sponsored by Palomar College for adults and high school students.
—Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
With high school bringing teenagers into closer contact with peers all week long, Osterud writes, their strongest bonds were with peers in the same grade.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2026
Season 2 is set in 1994, with senior year of high school underway for Ted the foul-mouthed teddy bear and the likable but awkward John.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
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Ocvarsity Sports Staff, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
Sponsored by Palomar College for adults and high school students.
—Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
With high school bringing teenagers into closer contact with peers all week long, Osterud writes, their strongest bonds were with peers in the same grade.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2026
Season 2 is set in 1994, with senior year of high school underway for Ted the foul-mouthed teddy bear and the likable but awkward John.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
- public school
- junior high school
- senior high school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- middle school
- common school
- primary school
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The first day of New York City public school will be unusually late this fall, according to the official 2026-27 school year calendar released Tuesday — forcing families to scramble for child care at the end of summer break.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Catawba County commissioners voted Monday to merge the county’s three public school systems, starting a yearslong consolidation despite strong opposition from educators and residents.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
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Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.—
Scott W. Stern,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2026
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Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.—
Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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People stand at the courtyard of a secondary school where an assailant opened fire, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 15, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Our contract enabled the school district to implement mandatory recess for elementary school students; codify smaller class sizes; expand access to honors, arts, music and sports; and establish dual language schools in the Black community on the West and South sides.—
Stacy Davis Gates,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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Jarvis and Rosen first rubbed elbows in elementary school.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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That happened one day during a middle school game.—
Tony Baranek,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Newport Mesa Unified School District has voted to ban e-bikes at all elementary and middle school campuses beginning in the 2027-28 school year.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
12 May 2025
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These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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Among the casualties of Operation Epic Fury’s first day were more than a hundred and seventy-five people, most of them little girls, at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school, in the southern city of Minab.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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