One of my criticisms of NCLB is that it causes too many schools to focus all of their attention on the bottom 25% of a school’s population while ignoring the middle- and upper-level students. Some of the effects of this focus in my school are: fewer upper-level course choices in order to create more lower-level courses, larger [...]

Today an article explained how the state Supreme Court deemed random drug tests for athletes unconstitutional. One portion of the article reads: “We cannot countenance random searches of public school student athletes,” under the Washington Constitution, Justice Richard Sanders wrote. “We require a warrant except for rare ...