State board approves Indiana’s Common Core replacement
One of the first states to adopt Common Core standards became the first state to formally abandon the national benchmarks.
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UPDATE: Presidential debate interest renewed at Purdue
The appointment of Purdue University President Mitch Daniels to the Commission on Presidential Debates raises the question of whether the university would bid to host one of the debates for the 2016 race.
Indiana panel to host public forums on education
Indiana residents will get a chance to weigh in on strategies for improving the state's efforts in education, job-skills training and career-development.
Ball State challenges ruling on transcripts
Ball State University is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to hear its challenge of a court ruling that would require it to release transcripts of students who leave the school with unpaid tuition.
Northwestern players to cast historic union vote
Northwestern University's football players will cast ballots Friday on whether to form the nation's first union for college athletes — a potentially landmark vote for college sports.
Plan approved for wind farm; Purdue to do research
Zoning officials have approved scaled-back plans for a northern Indiana wind farm where Purdue University researchers plan to study the impact of the towering turbines.
NCAA board endorses more power for big schools
The NCAA's board of directors took the first step toward shifting power to the five largest football conferences on Thursday, endorsing a 57-page plan that calls for giving 65 of the nation's biggest schools more autonomy.
Competition spurs Butler to launch blitz of renovation, construction
Butler University plans to add new residence halls, construct a larger facility to house its business school, and renovate existing academic buildings and dormitories as part of sweeping upgrades at the private school.
ITT student-loan bet stings Lilly’s credit union
A default-prone portfolio of loans to ITT Educational Services students has come back to haunt Eli Lilly Federal Credit Union, a full-service but otherwise conservative institution.
NCAA president seeking big changes, quickly
Mark Emmert wants the NCAA to fast-track upgrades for major-conference college athletes — regardless of whether a players union is pushing for them.
IPS, Mind Trust launch school-turnaround fellowship
Education reform group The Mind Trust will pay selected educators $100,000 to spend a year developing plans and forming teams to improve the poorest performing schools in the IPS district.
Indiana education panel approves new school standards
The approval from the Education Roundtable — co-chaired by Pence and Superintendent for Public Instruction Glenda Ritz and flushed with lawmakers, business leaders and education officials — means the standards passed one of the last hurdles before adoption.
Late biologist’s estate gives $4.2 million to IU
IU said the gifts from the Carlos O. Miller estate now total nearly $5.5 million and fund a faculty chair and a student fellowship.
Board member asks for old Indiana school standards
A State Board of Education member formally requested Friday that an education panel abandon a proposed overhaul of Indiana's education standards.
Proposed Indiana school standards get mixed reviews
Debate on the new standards comes as the state races to create before July new, state-written benchmarks for what students should learn in each grade.
Indiana faces deadline on new education standards
As the first state to drop the national Common Core learning standards, Indiana is rushing to approve new state-crafted benchmarks in time for teachers to use them this fall, and education leaders from across the nation are closely watching.
Education officials release draft of academic standards
The proposed standards for grades K-12 combine elements of Common Core, previous Indiana guidelines and recommendations from outside organizations. State law requires standards be approved before July 1 for use in the 2014-15 school year.
IU research-to-market center plans move to Wishard
The Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. wants to sell its existing Innovation Center building in downtown Indianapolis and move into the former Wishard Memorial Hospital on the edge of the IUPUI campus.
Small school systems dispute consolidation report
School officials across Indiana are taking issue with a report by Ball State researchers that suggests mergers of smaller districts are inevitable.
Downtown Evansville picked for new IU med school
Evansville officials had pushed the location covering nearly six city blocks as a key for downtown redevelopment. The center that could draw some 2,000 health care students.