IHSA sued over brain trauma (concussions) from football
The IHSA is being sued over not exercising the proper care of athletes who had suffered concussions as they played football.
Academics
La. judge won’t block charter school payments yet
A Louisiana judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the diversion of state ed $$ away from public schools and into charters.
Juvenile rehab through poetry
Using a poem written about 83 years ago, juvenile offenders in Maryland presented their analysis of the text to an appellate judge.
Teen sexting is vexing
Teen sexting is on the rise, and adults are left, mostly, wondering what to do about it. Some options are offered.
Sometimes legitimately, fears of Ebola disrupt school
Right or wrong, schools have made a few minor changes in response to the entry of the Ebola virus into the US earlier this year.
Suit seeks to allow distribution of religious materials
Whether students can distribute religious materials on school grounds may depend on whether anti-religion groups can distribute their own flyers.
College kids add a new sexuality classification: Asexual
The number of sexual identities is growing, especially among college-aged women (questioning, asexual). Research has been long in coming.
In IL, with no ocean nearby, a storage table will have to do
Industrial ed students at a central IL junior high study erosion of the ocean floor and other interesting topics, like modeling a real-world situation.
DNA exonerates 2 men convicted of murder in N.C.
DNA evidence was used to clear two convicted rapists and murderers in September. How does that work, and what should we do to fix the problem?
Early talking skills predict future writing difficulties
Canadian study: 1st graders who have trouble conjugating verbs have more trouble learning to write as 2nd graders.