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After all, the President's proposal to develop voluntary fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math tests by 1999 has enjoyed public support since its unveiling last February. Education experts agree that American public schools badly need tougher--and higher--national standards. National testing would enable parents and schools from Cambridge, Mass., to Compton, Calif., to measure an individual student's performance against a common yardstick. A well-executed national testing system might also ease the transition to charter schooling and public-school choice by providing a standard method of assessing different schools' strengths. In a TIME/CNN poll last week...
...state known for hard-nosed law enforcement, no one talked tougher than Arizona Governor Fife Symington. Since taking office in 1991 he had called countless times for more arrests and harsher penalties. "Crime is not traced to the lack of material things," he once said. "It happens through loss of values...
...Among their solutions: an extra week of "sensitivity training" for male recruits, and tougher screening of drill instructors. It's a good public relations exercise, says TIME military correspondent Mark Thompson. "Because of the Army's relatively swift action, most people will think the situation was handled fairly." In other words, this is an effort to prevent the Aberdeen training camp controversy from becoming as embarassing as the 1991 Tailhook scandal was for the Navy...
Many colleges have been getting tougher on the issue. Schools are still handing out literature and holding workshops, but they know that education is not enough to solve the problem. "Vague know-when-to-say-when messages just don't mean a lot to students," says Erenberg. Administrators have become quicker to penalize campus groups that sponsor reckless parties. And more than 50 colleges now permit students to avoid temptation and rowdy behavior by living in alcohol-free dorms. "It's an effort to break into the campus alcohol culture and say it is possible to have a fulfilling college...
...most direct way to combat alcohol abuse is to ban consumption on campus entirely. In 1995, after finishing at the top of The Princeton Review's party-school rankings two years in a row, the University of Rhode Island banned alcohol at all campus social events. Combined with tougher penalties for violations and greater efforts to educate students about responsible drinking, U.R.I. administrators say the new policy has dramatically changed the culture of the school. "For a long time, this community was going through a period of denial," says vice president for student affairs John McCray. Now, he adds, alcohol...