Starting in 2026-27, it will be mandatory for ninth- through 12th-grade students to pass the exam that is taken to become a U.S. citizen to graduate.

The transition from high school to whatever pseudo-adult period that follows—college, trade school, a gap year, or working—is a time for celebration. But it’s also a time for preparation.

Robert David Holliday was scheduled to graduate from Muscatine High School in 1958, but deployed before he could do so. Holliday, who served in the Vietnam War from 1959-61, was presented an ...

I look at my diploma every day. My mother, she only went as far as the 11th grade, but she wanted all her children to finish high school. On her dying bed, I promised her that I would go back ...

BOND: It's a long time coming. I look at my diploma every day. My mother, she only went as far as the 11th grade, but she wanted all her children to finish high school. On her dying bed, I promised ...