2011 was a much better year for donations to colleges and universities, The Chronicle for Higher Education reports, and Indiana University had a better year than most. The total amount IU received in grants and gifts last year — more than $295 million — ranked 17th in a national survey of college giving whose results were released this week, [...]
The popular perception is that teachers unions have a stranglehold on public education, preventing principals from firing the bad teachers. The reality may not be so simple.
We’ve written about the small group of Indiana parents who plan to opt their children out of statewide standardized exams this Spring, fearing the testing is undermining their kids’ education. This small but vocal Indiana group may now have supporters in a state reputed for doing everything “bigger”: Texas, where The Texas Tribune reports there’s “a [...]
Critical though they may be in the Obama administration’s effort to combat childhood obesity, some smaller school districts worry new federal health guidelines for school lunches could come at a high cost. From Indiana Public Media: Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation spokesperson Nancy Millspaugh says the district has already been working to make school meals healthier.
The Indiana Board of Education held its final vote earlier today on the take over five Hoosier schools, four of them from Indianapolis. Our colleague Brandon Smith with Indiana Public Broadcasting filed this report. The board unanimously approved each of the Department of Education’s recommendations for state action on the schools in their sixth year of [...]
Education Week has an article which raises the question: how much control should schools have over a student’s internet identity? Should schools be able to intervene when a child’s online activities outside of school interfere with another student or is that protected speech? A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the school discipline of a [...]
According to a neat little app on Education Week’s website, Indiana’s graduation rate has hovered within two or three percent of 70% for nearly ten years. Actually, Education Week’s numbers come from their own research arm; Editorial Projects in Education. According to the Indiana Department of Education, the state has made enormous strides in the last [...]
According to this story from the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, GiaQuinta is the first of seven members who will eventually be appointed to the board. Fort Wayne Community Schools board president Mark GiaQuinta will serve as the Indiana House Democratic representative on the new Indiana Charter School Board. Created this year under a wide-ranging charter [...]
From WBAA News in Lafayette, administration changes at Purdue University: Purdue’s president will step down from the position next summer. France Córdova announced Friday afternoon she will finish out the final year of her five year contract and then move on. Córdova turns 65 in August of next year, which is the mandatory age for [...]
Another sterling report from the people at Indiana Public Media. More than 200 new pieces of legislation go into effect today . The bills vary in subject from texting while driving and guns to small crimes and kindergarten. Because of their variety, the new bills impact virtually everyone in some way. Indiana University Political Science [...]
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