A $1.5 million grant the the Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation will train Indiana science teachers in a new curriculum that helps
students learn through exploration and problem solving.
A new report says health insurance for Indiana's public schools and universities could cost at least $450 million less annually if they joined the state's plan for public employees.
Former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities among IU appointments.
IU says MaryEllen Bishop of Carmel has been elected to an alumni seat on the Indiana University Board of Trustees.
A new report says school superintendents who want voters to approve requests for additional district funding need to become
campaign savvy.
The Indianapolis-based not-for-profit has a new president and a vice president of strategic growth initiatives.
For-profit colleges like ITT Technical Institutes need tougher oversight and regulation, according to a report from a Democratic
Senate committee chairman that questions the industry’s advertising spending, tuition costs and reliance on taxpayer
money.
The grants announced Monday include $5.9 million for Hammond High School, $5.8 million for Glenwood Middle School, $2.2 million
for Indianapolis Metropolitan High School and $1.6 million for the Challenge Foundation Academy.
An Arkansas-based charity, formed by Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton, will run a competition to award grants to five community
organizations that want to start charter schools.
The Julia Carson Learning Resource Center will house the Indianapolis campus's library and tutoring labs, a local bus
hub and a 500-space parking garage.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is calling for a new law that would force public school districts to transfer unused buildings
to charter school startups looking for space.
After 10-month search, Purdue University officials broaden quest for new permanent dean for Krannert School of Management.
School officials hope to have position filled by spring.
Beginning this summer, the Department of Agriculture will house Indiana FFA's executive offices.
One-time events influenced bottom lines of some of the few companies that made more money in 2009.
About 75 percent of Indiana students passed this year's statewide English and math exams—a significant improvement
over the 2009 test results.
The Obama administration proposed banning for-profit colleges, including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc., from
tying recruiters’ pay to the number of people they enroll, saying high-pressure sales tactics induced students to take
out government loans they can’t afford.
The Indianapolis-based Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation is contributing $20 million to support IUPUI’s effort to open
a school of public health.
Newsweek's list of top high schools, released Monday, ranks more than 1,600 schools, including 28 in Indiana.
WGU Indiana is a branch of Western Governors University, a private, not-for-profit university designed for working adults
trying to earn bachelor’s or master’s degrees.
ITT Educational Services Inc., Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp. and other for-profit educators
are under increasing federal scrutiny over their recruitment practices and the level of student loan defaults.
