According to a cited study in an LA Times article, overweight students average a half point lower grade point average and score almost 10 percentile points below their peers on other tests. Other findings are that overweight students: are five times more likely to have six or more detentions, had more absences, possessed lower physical fitness ...

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 ...