The Daily Report Card: Tony Bennett at Harvard, High School Steroids, and Passing School Buses

In The Classroom Today

Superintendents Sound Off On School Reform At Harvard Conference In the eyes of Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett, America’s schools can only improve by taking on a number of different reforms simultaneously. Different parties to the education debate stress different measures — charter schools, voucher programs that use public money to fund private schools, looser union protections for teachers — but implementing reforms one at a time won’t do anything, Bennett said. “We had a robust public school choice system with charter schools in our state for a few years,” Bennett said. “It didn’t do anything (Huffington Post)

Study: School Drug Testing Not Acting as Deterrent for Males – Schooled in Sports – Education Week Supporters of student drug-testing programs often claim that they maintain value as a deterrent, even if the programs uncover few (or no) positive results. (In this instance, we’re talking about drugs such as alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana, not steroids.) Thanks to a study recently published online in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, those drug-testing supporters may need to develop a new party line. (blogs.edweek.org)

Police Crack Down On Stop Arm Violators – Indiana News Story – WRTV Indianapolis HAMILTON CO., Ind. — Police are cracking down on drivers who fail to stop for school buses that are loading and unloading students. A recent survey of school bus drivers released by the Indiana Department of Education revealed 3,500 cars passed stop arms in 184 school districts on a single day. Wayne Township, Indiana Public Schools, Bartholomew Consolidated and Hamilton Southeastern topped the list of Central Indiana school districts with stop arm incidents. (WRTV Indianapolis)