The Daily Report Card: USI Advising, Campaign Trail, High Schools

Education Reform: What Obama and Romney Won’t Tell You – “Education reform doesn’t fit well with the overall argument either candidate is making about why he should get to sit in the Oval Office next January.” TIME

USI increasing focus on academic advising for undergrads – The University of Southern Indiana “will launch a program in the fall aimed at helping new students choose a major and keeping them on a path to graduate.” Evansville Courier & Press

Why are our high schools invisible? – “Many college graduates think, as I do, that our high schools are more in tune with our habits and tastes. So why don’t we mention them?” Washington Post’s Class Struggle blog

Kindergartners use iPods to prepare for test – [PHOTOS] Students used iPod Touch devices last week “to prepare for the Indiana kindergarten assessment IREAD-K test during class at Immanuel Lutheran School in Valparaiso.” Times of NWI