Education Week

Freshman year of high school, as nearly anyone can attest, is a lot to digest, from new locker combinations to lunchroom politics to catching the right bus and avoiding rowdy juniors.

Aside from those social concerns, there's increasing evidence that it is one of the most important academic years in students' lives. Freshman year grade point average is a powerful signal of how students will do in later years—and even whether they will enroll in college, a new research study says...