Student Athlete Drug Testing Today in the United States drug use is rising and is becoming an increasing problem. Due to this, many school officials have made their student athletes take mandatory random drug tests. This strategy has been proven to fail in various situations and has also be...

Drug Testing in Schools According to a study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, among the graduating class of 1997, 54.3 percent of students had used an illicit drug by the time they reached their senior year of high school; a dramatic increase from 40.7 percen...

With every new day there comes a new drug. That sentence greatly reminds me of high school. I myself have never done or taken any drug, besides alcohol. However, when I was in high school it seemed as if all of my friends were doing drugs, trying new drugs, or selling drugs. They would often of...

Since the Supreme Court ruled that schools would be allowed to perform drug testing on students, many angry parents have rebelled. They have created web-sites, complained at school board meetings and taken their cases to court. Although they claim their constitutional rights have been infringed, the...

Education Needs a Facelift Standardized tests are intended to give a general measure of students' performance. Standardized testing means administrating the same test in the same way to two or more pupils. Since large numbers of students throughout the country take the same test, they give ed...

The editorial "No Child Left Behind," which appeared in the January 24th, 2005 Edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, clearly brings up important issues that need to be addressed with the current No Child Left Behind law before shifting gears to other areas of students coupled ...

Since the late 1800's, college entrance examinations have been used as an admissions test at many colleges and universities across the nation.  One such entrance exam is the Scholastic Aptitude Test, often referred to as the SAT.  Although the SAT is not a mandatory test in every state across...

The Fairness of Academic Evaluation American students used to pass from grade to grade with few complications. Getting into a college was effortless and acquiring degrees was a piece of cake. In 1983, A Nation at Risk was published and Americans realized how inferior their education systems rea...

Through the thirteen years of public school, from Kindergarten to Twelfth grade, the purpose is to prepare a child to enter the real world and to live successfully as possible. Elementary school is only a stepping-stone to Middle School and High School, and serves only to allow a child to mature. It...

2000 Election Every four years there is a presidential election. The elections are important to most Americans because it can change the future for many generations. There are many who run for this very important position, those who run get into to parties of those who will take office wi...

The seven-lesson schoolteacher, as John Taylor Gatto simply puts it, teaches school. Despite beliefs and premonitions that children attend schools to learn something, Gatto explains how children are not primarily "acquiring general knowledge" nor are they "developing the powers of r...

Education in Japan Education is very important to the success of any country. Japan is a country that has an effective educational system. Through selective borrowing and reforms from the American occupation after World War II, Japan's educational system has created one of the most highl...

Education Manifesto What student hasn't felt taken advantage of during their school years? Probably none, if you think about it. In this day and age, corporate control over American public education has taken advantage of students by using them as obligatory consumers to sell their products...

After watching 60 Minutes this past Sunday I got to thinking about that age-old subject as to whether college athletes should be paid funds in addition to just their sports scholarship? The program brought out the facts of how the NCAA ...

In a world full of differences, where what makes us unique is celebrated, students are now being told that part of what makes us individuals is no longer appropriate or even acceptable. Uniforms will not work in a public school setting because they are expensive, a violation of one's rights, and, f...