The Daily Report Card: ‘Just Not That Into’ Reading & Waivers?

Maybe ED’s Just Not That Into You… – Title I-derland We’re supposed to get word on 11 states’ NCLB waiver applications — including Indiana’s. But why the delay in the response from the U.S. Department of Ed? “Maybe,” proposes Title I-derland, “ED isn’t all that impressed with what states are proposing.” (titleonederland.blogs.thompson.com)

What Do High School Seniors Think about Literature? – Driving Barefoot Among the discoveries of this high school English teacher: At least a quarter of her students use Sparks Notes to “fake their way through literature units.” (drivingbarefoot.tumblr.com)

Foreign Students Pay a Premium at American Colleges – NYTimes.com “If the university’s reliance on full-freight Chinese students to balance the budget echoes the nation’s dependence on China as the largest holder of American debt, well, said the dean of admissions, Philip A. Ballinger, ‘this is a way of getting some of that money back.'” (thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com)

Workers displaced by foreign trade exiting Ivy Tech – Muncie Star-Press “For the first time in at least 14 years, enrollment has stopped increasing in the East Central Region of Ivy Tech Community College.” (The Star-Press)

EVSC’s cash reserves half of what they were at end of 2010 » Evansville Courier & Press The Courier & Press attributes the Evansville Vanderburgh Schools’ rainy day rundown to “rising health insurance costs and the end of federal stimulus funds.” (courierpress.com)