New 2008 rankings of the nation's premier public high schools from U.S. News and World Report are likely to provide fresh insights for reform-minded educators nationwide.
American high schools are again under fire, and this time, Judge Manning (the judge presiding over the Leandro case) isn't the one fanning the flames. Rather, Governors from most of the states have entered the fray, calling for reforms to American high schools and to data collection on graduation rates.
RALEIGH — When former Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco alleged in his book, Juiced, that big-name sluggers used steroids to crush the ball and catapult their careers into the record books, Congress wasn’t the only group to take his charges seriously. Canseco’s allegations, combined with previous news of steroid use at the Olympic and college levels, have some North Carolina educators wondering if steroids have infiltrated high school athletics and if they should be included in random drug-testing programs already conducted by some districts. The state has no official policy on student drug testing.
