A new survey finds that only about one-quarter of Indiana residents support using public money to start more charter schools, which Gov. Mitch Daniels is pushing to do during the upcoming legislative session.
The program will award $10,000 per school year to each of 10 incoming students who attend the annual Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders.
Indianapolis Children’s Choir founder Henry Leck has named Josh Pedde as the first assistant artistic director in the 25-year history of the not-for-profit organization.
Traditional colleges like Indiana University know they must shift to more online learning options or else lose students to upstart competitors using digital technology to offer college curriculum at greater convenience.
Memo from Superintendent Tony Bennett to district administrators says there are “no current plans for reductions”
Hamilton Southeastern Schools, Franklin Township Schools and Middlebury Community Schools say the school formula violates the state constitution's requirement for "general and uniform" public education funding because districts get different per-pupil amounts.
Encompass Media LLC, run by Indianapolis native Scott Watanabe, projects rapid growth for digital textbooks.
Despite its serious ills since 2007, Indiana University basketball remains a national power—at least financially. The men’s basketball program ranked No. 8 among all NCAA Division I schools in revenue generation during the 2008-2009 season.
Five students at Indiana University School of Medicine contemplate whether to opt for family practice or a specialty.
An Indianapolis company has developed Web-based software that allows college students to read and electronically mark up textbooks, articles, chapters of books, etc. It also has a business model that its owners think will make more money for publishers and slash students’ textbook costs—which average $1,200 a year—in half.
A coalition representing part-time educators within IUPUI’s School of Liberal Arts called for a pay hike after full-time faculty received a similar raise.
Experts are split over whether runup in precious metal is a classic bubble.
Gov. Mitch Daniels plans to ask the General Assembly to allow students who choose to graduate early to use much of the money the state would save to pay for higher education.
Election night victories for Indiana Republicans have paved the way for a major education overhaul that could affect thousands of students, teachers and parents and fundamentally change the way schools work in Indiana.
Indiana among those rolling out new, less-risky 529 plans to attract savers wary of losing money in the stock market.
Fixing schools won’t be easy, but it begins with an honest realization of the problem—not mendacious malarkey.
The site is “scientifically accurate enough” to be used by the Department of Homeland Security and NASA, but friendly enough for elementary school students.
New recruiter compensation rules adopted by the U.S. Department of Education could be one more thing that slows or even reverses the torrid growth of Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc.
The school plan that House Republicans presented during the campaign calls for giving parents more options, holding teachers accountable and putting more education dollars in classrooms rather than administration.
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) College Preparatory School faces its seventh—and final—review this year, one that could determine its survival.
