Morning Bell: IPFW Future, Healthy Recipe Gets Fort Wayne Kid To White House

IPFW future as state college set for panel discussion – “A state legislative committee leader said it is time to discuss whether the joint campus run by Indiana and Purdue universities in Fort Wayne should become an independent school.” AP

Salad garners boy, 9, invite to White House – “Alex Aylward, though, has attracted some attention with one of his recipes, and it wasn’t peanut butter and jelly.” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Purdue sophomore’s app contributes to Mars rover mission – “Avron recently wrapped up a third internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he programmed an iPhone app that, with a few finger taps, sends commands to a test model of the Curiosity rover named Scarecrow.” Lafayette Journal and Courier

On the horizon: harder tests – “The Common Core standards will differ significantly from Ohio’s current academic standards in content, emphases, and cognitive demand. These standards promise greater rigor in what students are expected to learn and how their learning is applied; therefore, we can also expect that the Common Core’s aligned assessments—again, the PARCC exams—will be more difficult.” Ohio Gadfly Daily

High School Daze: The Perils Of Sacrificing Sleep For Late-Night Studying – “High school students with heavy academic course loads often find the demands of homework colliding with the need for adequate sleep. And a new study published in the journal Child Development finds that when teens don’t get the sleep they need on a given night, the next day all kinds of things can go poorly.” WBUR & NPR