The following is a list of selected articles relating to high school education that have appeared in the Boston Globe since Jan. 1, 1998. The realities of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases have turned straight talk between adults and teenagers about sex and drugs into a matter of life and death. Less than a year ago, the Dorchester High School choir was awash in invitations to sing at the State House, at the Wang Center, at suburban schools. Music education was flowering as well. As the only lasting tools of cultures across millennia, the arts are so engrained into the fabric of human existence that it may be difficult to separate them from daily life in order to see their central importance in the classroom as well as in life.
Teenagers know, perhaps too well, that making money can be hard, but it can also be rewarding.
Your teenager brings home great report cards, and high marks in advanced placement and honors courses. It's not enough. Petite, maybe, or elfin or even fragile, but not powerful. Elections come and go, and the partisan passions that they inflame fade, but fundamental problems remain. Precisely because those challenges are difficult to deal with, they often go unaddressed in campaign combat.