An Indianapolis TV station conducted a survey with a disturbing result that cheating by teachers on standardized tests mmight be more common that previoulsy realized. It didn't take long for an apologist to speak up:
Teachers' anxiety over their students' performance on the tests may play a role, an Indiana State Teachers Association official told WTHR.
Even before we start weighing pros and cons, this seems like a bad idea:
Students at a southern Indiana high school are learning that hard work really does pay off.
That's because they're being rewarded with cash for good grades.
At Jeffersonville High School, students are paid $100 for every advanced placement test they pass.
Here's a stunner. Under Indiana law, at least half the food in Indiana school vending machines must be "healthy choice options" lole dried apple slices and baked chips and low-fat pretzels. But guess what:
GREENTOWN - A school in north-central Indiana is hoping to increase literacy by issuing iPads to kindergarten students.
The Kokomo Tribune reports that Eastern Elementary School in Greentown, 10 miles east of Kokomo, plans to buy about 100 tablets to be given to students in August.
Is there anybody who can actually argue with a straight face that this meets constitutional muster?
INDIANAPOLIS | An Indiana Senate committee on Wednesday endorsed teaching creationism in public schools, despite pleas from scientists and religious leaders to keep religion out of science classrooms.
Those of us who have been arguing for years to keep strong local control of education should probably give up the cause and move on to something else -- that fight has been lost. Guess Scott Schneider didn't get the memo, though:
An effort to force Indiana to withdraw from "common core" education standards failed Wednesday, but the bill's sponsor promised to try to revive it.
Here we go again -- zero-tolerance taken to absurd lengths:
Smacking a female classmate's behind has garnered a one-day suspension for a 6-year-old Hoagland Elementary student on grounds of sexual harassment, raising the ire of the boy's mother who is questioning the school's labeling of the incident.
Here we go again -- zero-tolerance taken to absurd lengths:
Smacking a female classmate's behind has garnered a one-day suspension for a 6-year-old Hoagland Elementary student on grounds of sexual harassment, raising the ire of the boy's mother who is questioning the school's labeling of the incident.
