Policymakers on both the left and right have long felt hamstrung when it comes to addressing the problems that decades of social science research have shown hurt the economic prospects, not only of those in the midst of them, but everyone else in the community.
Some schools are being affected by a flawed question on Indiana's standardized ISTEP student exam, which began Monday.
The new companies are based in the engineering, industrial technology, information technology, life sciences, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals and software sectors.
Indiana House lawmakers on Thursday effectively killed a proposal that would have diminished the power of teachers unions amid an intense backlash from labor leaders and opposition from within the GOP.
Each year children spend growing up in the Indianapolis area causes them to fall further and further behind their peers nationally in future earnings potential.
The problems at Tindley Accelerated Schools didn’t go away when Chancellor Marcus Robinson resigned. If anything, the change served only to highlight the challenges still facing the once-lauded charter school system.
Ball State University alumnus John Schnatter and the Charles Koch Foundation are partnering on a $3.25 million grant to establish the center, to be named after the pizza chain founder.
Medical malpractice victims would be able to receive more compensation under a bill passed on Monday by an Indiana House committee
A House Education committee on Monday advanced a contentious proposal to give Indiana school districts authority to negotiate higher pay with individual teachers.
During Raj Acharya’s tenure at Penn State, the university's computer science research expenditure moved from 64th in the nation in 2001 to eighth in 2013.
The new contract increases Ferebee’s potential pay to $287,000 a year and extends his contract until 2019.
A former clinic director and 30-year faculty member at the IU School of Dentistry in Indianapolis who was fired last year after students complained he inappropriately touched them is suing to get his job back, saying he was denied a fair hearing.
One proposal that would give school districts authority to negotiate higher pay with individual teachers faces an uncertain fate after the Republican Senate leader pronounced it dead Thursday. Another measure is still alive in the House.
Despite school choice options and other efforts to recruit families, the state’s second-largest district expects to lose 968 students next year.
Five new members have joined the seven-member Indiana charter school board over the past year. The board is set to craft a new long-term strategic plan it hopes to put in place starting in 2017.
A measure passed on a 38-10 vote would create a 22-member panel to "study alternatives to the ISTEP" and "make recommendations for replacing" the test.
Pass Whiz, the app created by 17-year-old Zack Baker, allows students to request a pass to leave the classroom which teachers can approve or deny by tapping a button.
Many school district administrators and Indiana's teachers unions are arguing against a legislative proposal that would give districts the authority to negotiate higher pay with individual teachers.
NCAA President Mark Emmert believes mid- and lower-level members are gradually adjusting to Power Five conference school's autonomy and increased financial outlay to athletes because of cost-of-attendance stipends.
Acting Ball State University President Terry King says he doesn’t support a proposal that would change how school trustees are appointed.
