MEREDITH: Arts instruction reaches far beyond coursework
It seems that policymakers have created just enough direction to create stress over how to weave test scores into the evaluations of arts teachers.
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HARRIS: Evaluating all teachers is critical, regardless of subject
When compensating teachers based on test scores and other performance measures, how should teachers in fine arts be reviewed?
BROOKS: Replace the onerous act with common-sense policies
Like many Hoosiers, I was disappointed that the Supreme Court upheld the mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.
RESKE: Law brought huge protections but needs improvement
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.
COLLINS: Where jobs, resilience, are plentiful
Right now you are probably asking yourself: “What would it be like to live in a place with an unemployment rate of 1 percent?”
KRUGMAN: Romney exemplifies plutocrat pathos
"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.
BROOKS: Where our new upper crust went wrong
Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Protestant Establishment sat atop the American power structure.
SOWELL: Now we’re even trashing success
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.
MARCUS: Labor’s vast potential going to waste
Today, unions are being peeled so that they become smaller.
BOEHM: Put justice facility back on the agenda
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.
WINSTON: A plan to make mass transit a reality
Here in central Indiana, we have the perfect opportunity to make improvements to our mass transit system.
KETZENBERGER: Indianapolis needs more ‘Yeah’ attitude
How many times do you suppose Brian Payne heard, “Yeah, but” when he was selling the idea of a Cultural Trail?
EARLY: Don’t confuse Donnelly as a switch-hitter
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.
KANE: Racist thoughts still tinge Black Expo
It has been unfortunate to hear the criticisms and judgmental rumblings regarding the decorum of expo visitors and tourists over the past few years.
ODLE: Black males see American Dream fade
The political season is nearing full swing and inevitably taxes will take center stage.
VAUGHN: Daniels won’t admit costly FSSA mistake
With the Purdue University job awaiting him, Gov. Daniels is apparently taking a Rube Goldberg approach to state government.
SHELLA: Why the Democrats ousted Pat Bauer
He lost the majority in 2010 and staged two failed walkouts in 2011 and 2012. That was part of it.
SOUDER: Pence’s, Daniels’ populist subtleties
Steve Goldsmith was one of the brightest men to run for governor of Indiana but he lacked a populist touch.
COLLINS: Higgs boson vanishes in political black hole
The physicists who made the discovery, Obama noted, all had health insurance.
DOUTHAT: We’re still deciding who isn’t fit to live
It’s easy for us to look back and pass judgment on yesterday’s eugenicists.