The Daily Report Card: Ed Eiler, Tony Bennett, More Mind Trust, and Lessons of Penn State

Bangert: A hedge fund buck to be made on school reform – Lafayette Journal and Courier It’s easy to dismiss the retiring Lafayette superintendent’s protestations as “conspiratorial” until you actually see “the sharks circling,” opines Dave Bangert. (The Courier-Journal )

State schools chief popular headliner across the country – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Tony Bennett’s travels… (journalgazette.net)

My View: Teachers want freedom to speak their minds – Indy Star An IPS teacher speaks out in favor of the local control in schools, a key point of The Mind Trust’s report. (blogs.indystar.com)

Penn State Lesson: Be Better, Do More – SLS Blawg IU’s president outlined school hotlines and law enforcement contacts for anyone who might witness child sexual abuse on campus. But “they do NOT alleviate the obligation of students, faculty, and staff to tell the police or child services,” writes Randall Frykberg. (indiana.edu)

Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track – Economix Some engineering students at Purdue have commented on StateImpact posts in the past to anecdotally highlight the long study hours they put in — long hours confirmed by the charts in this NYT blog post. (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)