106-year-old US woman to get school diploma

Associated Press

LUCAS, Ohio (AP) - Reba Williams said she completed high school in Ohio but was denied her diploma because she refused to read a final book assigned by a teacher. She'd read it once and didn't want to read it again...

Study: High school grad rate highest since '76

Phillip Elliott, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's high school graduation rate is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of students are still failing to get their diploma in four years, the Education Department said in a study released Tuesday...

Drake gives high school grad speech

Ugonna Okpalaoka

VIDEO - After finally receiving his high school diploma earlier this month, Drake celebrated by delivering a graduation speech to students at Toronto's Jarvis Collegiate Institute on Friday...

An excited Drake: 'I got my high school diploma'

Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A day after earning his high school diploma, an excited Drake performed hit songs for a few hundred people at an event for Tyra Banks...

Drake graduates high school at age 25

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Drake has had phenomenal success, first as a child actor and now as a hip-hop star, but he always regretted not completing his high school education...

Drake plans to graduate high school this summer

Briana C. Scott

theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Drake is adamant about obtaining his high school diploma and is just one credit from completing his goal...

Diploma denied because family cheered loudly

Melissa Noel

theGRIO REPORT - A Cincinnati, Ohio high school senior was denied his diploma, not for failing classes, but because his family cheered too loud at his graduation...

Diploma of 1st black Harvard grad found

theGrio

The diploma of the first African-American Harvard graduate has been discovered in an abandoned home on the South Side of Chicago...

Unemployment benefits may be denied without a GED

theGrio

From Cleveland: WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Beneficiaries without a high school degree or GED would have to work toward that diploma to get unemployment aid...

Bronx foster child prospers in new two-fer degree program

theGrio

"It's a lot of work -- you have to go to school year-round -- so it was a lot of balancing, and a lot of people couldn't handle it," said McNair, 17...

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Diploma

106-year-old US woman to get school diploma

Study: High school grad rate highest since '76

Drake gives high school grad speech

An excited Drake: 'I got my high school diploma'

Drake graduates high school at age 25

Drake plans to graduate high school this summer

Diploma denied because family cheered loudly

Diploma of 1st black Harvard grad found

Unemployment benefits may be denied without a GED

Bronx foster child prospers in new two-fer degree program

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