Online schools face scrutiny over scores, growth
Hoosier Academies and Indiana Connections Academy are both sponsored by Ball State University. Neither school came close to the state average for ISTEP+ scores last year.
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Indiana lawmakers launch review of school grading scandal
Republican Senate President Pro Tem David Long and Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma announced Friday the creation of an independent task force to review the school grading system.
Fate of Indiana school grading system uncertain
The American Federation of Teachers says Indiana should immediately suspend its A-F school grading system because of emails showing former schools chief Tony Bennett changed the grading formula to benefit a top GOP donor's school.
Bennett resigns as Florida education chief after emails reveal grade fix
Florida’s education commissioner resigned Thursday amid allegations that he changed the grade of a charter school run by a major Republican donor during his previous job as Indiana’s school chief.
Ex-Purdue president picked to head science agency
Former Purdue University president France Cordova's next job could be as director of the National Science Foundation.
Pence stands by school-grading system
Pence said the system is "an essential part" of accountability measures designed to improve education in Indiana.
Review, resignation urged in Indiana grading flap
Indiana education leaders on Tuesday pledged a thorough review of the state's system for evaluating schools after a former official who now serves as Florida's education commissioner worked to alter a grade for a school founded by a top Republican donor.
Report: Bennett changed GOP donor’s school grade
Former Indiana school Superintendent Tony Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan’s charter school received an “A,” despite poor test scores in algebra that initially earned it a “C.”
ISTEP disruptions had no impact on scores, review finds
The report released Monday by the Indiana Department of Education shows nearly 143,000 students in grades three through eight had at least one part of their test interrupted when server glitches kicked them offline.
IU med school’s research efforts have multiplied, but so have peers’
Retiring Indiana University School of Medicine Dean Dr. Craig Brater has, in his 13-year tenure, doubled the school’s number of research-oriented faculty to 700, doubled the amount of space for them to work in, and doubled the revenue from research grants and contracts. But all that effort has hardly budged IU in national rankings.
Shares rise after ITT halts 3-year swoon in new students
The Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges signed up 16,883 new students in the quarter ended June 30, a 7.5-percent increase from the same period last year.
Indiana lawmaker seeks Purdue trustees’ resignations
A Democratic state lawmaker asked Purdue University's trustees to resign Tuesday for giving President Mitch Daniels a bonus amid the recent firestorm over his efforts as governor to keep a liberal historian's textbook out of Indiana classrooms.
Purdue profs blast Daniels on academic freedom
Dozens of Purdue University professors questioned their new school president's commitment to academic freedom Monday following the release of emails showing that as governor Mitch Daniels tried to keep a liberal historian's textbook out of Indiana classrooms.
New CEO aims to continue Day Nursery’s 114-year run
Challenges for Ted Maple, formerly in charge of early-childhood education for the United Way, include keeping the venerable child care provider and its $10 million budget in the black.
Purdue trustees OK performance bonus for Daniels
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels is set to receive a $58,000 bonus for his first six months in office after a vote of trustees on Friday.
Daniels’ attack on text part of conservative push
Former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ directive was part of a broader conservative push to move all of the training of school teachers out of the nation’s teaching colleges.
Marian’s med school quest was leap of faith
Marian University, a small Catholic college started by Franciscan nuns, next month will launch just the second medical school in Indiana. Marian President Dan Elsener is credited with pulling off the audacious move with a mix of big dreaming, careful planning, deft networking and “don’t take no for an answer” fundraising.
Newspaper for college Greeks in rush to hire
Fast-growing Olympia Media Group plans to hire at least 15 more employees in the next two months—the majority in the next two weeks—as it expands into new markets and rebuilds its strategy for digital content.
Daniels denies trying to censor Indiana universities
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels said Wednesday he never tried to quash academic freedom while serving as Indiana’s governor and criticized an Associated Press report citing emails in which he opposed use of a book by anti-war activist Howard Zinn.
As governor, Daniels targeted liberal ‘propaganda,’ emails show
Emails obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request show Daniels requested that historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn's writings be banned from classrooms and asked for a "cleanup" of college courses.