When I took office in 2009, the Indiana Department of Education set high expectations for our children. My staff and I set ambitious goals for student achievement: improving ISTEP+ pass rates and high school graduation rates, having more students taking Advanced Placement exams, and increasing the number of college credits and technical certifications students earn in high school.
Mitch Daniels’ letter inviting the candidates who want to succeed him as governor to weigh in on how Indiana should implement parts of President Obama’s health care reform law demonstrates at least two things.
As pressure mounts from states pushing back on federal decisions and mandates, representation by their congressional delegations becomes increasingly important.
You say you want a revolution? You believe we need constitutional term limits?
It seems that policymakers have created just enough direction to create stress over how to weave test scores into the evaluations of arts teachers.
When compensating teachers based on test scores and other performance measures, how should teachers in fine arts be reviewed?
Like many Hoosiers, I was disappointed that the Supreme Court upheld the mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.
While the top priorities for Congress must be improving our economy and creating jobs, it is also important to ensure the implementation of the Affordable Care Act does not lead to counterproductive results.
Right now you are probably asking yourself: “What would it be like to live in a place with an unemployment rate of 1 percent?”
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald—and he didn’t just mean that they have more money.
Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Protestant Establishment sat atop the American power structure.
There was a time, within living memory, when achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that served these achievers well, even if we were not in the same field of endeavor and were not expecting to achieve on the same scale.
Today, unions are being peeled so that they become smaller.
The mayor announced that the preferred site of a proposed transportation center will be the city-owned block of Washington Street between the City-County Building and the jail.
Here in central Indiana, we have the perfect opportunity to make improvements to our mass transit system.
How many times do you suppose Brian Payne heard, “Yeah, but” when he was selling the idea of a Cultural Trail?
Mickey Mantle played baseball for the New York Yankees, where he hit 536 home runs. He was one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball.
It has been unfortunate to hear the criticisms and judgmental rumblings regarding the decorum of expo visitors and tourists over the past few years.
The political season is nearing full swing and inevitably taxes will take center stage.
With the Purdue University job awaiting him, Gov. Daniels is apparently taking a Rube Goldberg approach to state government.
