- Home
- NEWS
- REGIONAL
- THIS WEEK'S PAPER
- BLOGS
- Multimedia
- OPINION
- A&E
- LISTS
- PEOPLE
- EVENTS
- Classifieds
- Subscribe
Welcome to the archives for NewsTalk, an IBJ blog published from November 2007 through December 2010.
Education Blog Posts
Should Indiana take Gates' money?
October 26, 2009
Comments(6)Indiana wants to apply for controversial funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to seek federal education grants.
MoreTaking Ostrom to Indiana forests
October 13, 2009
Comments(0)How rich that Elinor Ostrom, the Indiana University professor who won a Nobel prize for economics yesterday, got her nails
dirty researching how people in pockets of forests in undeveloped nations allocate their natural resources.
MoreSteady as he goes at Purdue's Krannert School
October 8, 2009
Comments(3)As Rick Cosier's tenure as dean of Purdue University's MBA program nears an end, expect the program to continue turning out top "Quant Jock" operations managers--people who relentlessly figure out how to manufacture things better and cheaper.
IU shines in entrepreneurship
September 1, 2009
Comments(0)Entrepreneurship has become one of the hottest areas of academic research in business schools. And, by at least one measure,
Indiana University churns out the papers as well as any institution in the world.
MoreLumina chair Mutz preps for a W downturn
August 31, 2009
Comments(0)John Mutz, former lieutenant governor and chairman of the Lumina Foundation, is digging in for extended hard times.
MoreNeurosis and dying: Now you know
August 19, 2009
Comments(2)Believe it or not, until Purdue University psychologist Daniel Mroczek tackled the question, no one had delved
into why people who freak out easily die earlier than mellow folks.
Experts have long known that stressed, neurotic folks kick the bucket earlier....
MoreElementary smarts
June 24, 2009
Comments(4)Tony Bennett, the stateâ??s new education chief, has said children who canâ??t read or write before reaching
middle school years are all but doomed to struggle through the rest of their academic careers.
So, IBJ reporter J.K. Wall notes...
MoreMerits, demerits of adjunct profs
June 19, 2009
Comments(5)Ivy Tech Community College canâ??t hire adjunct faculty fast enough to teach its ballooning number of students.
The system is scouring locales where its campuses are located for people with masterâ??s degrees who could
teach part time: The going...
MoreHappy, unhappy teachers
May 28, 2009
Comments(6)Teachers in private schools are happier â?? much happier â?? than their public school counterparts, according
to a new study by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.
The Indianapolis foundation, created by one of the 20th Centuryâ??s most influential...
MoreStressed college grads
May 19, 2009
Comments(4)A new poll shows college grads are worried about finding jobs â?? no surprise there, considering the sorry
state of the economy.
But the poll, taken by Edison Media Research, also shows a third of them fretting about their...
MoreMass transit potential
April 27, 2009
Comments(13)For an interesting take on how mass transit could help revitalize Indianapolis, see IBJ reporter Chris Oâ??Malleyâ??s
story this week on the topic. Ball State grad students dreamed up several concepts for plunking new rail
stations along existing...
MoreThe new education chief
April 22, 2009
Comments(5)Tony Bennett has been state superintendent of public instruction for just three months, but heâ??s making
plenty
of waves.
Bennett, who replaced longtime chief Suellen Reed after she decided not to run for re-election, has not abandoned
his campaign...
MoreThe (your name here) bat
December 4, 2008
Comments(3)Purdue University is jumping on a trend toward offering naming rights for newly discovered species.
The university plans to announce Monday that a bat discovered by one of its researchers can be named for
a company, a person â??...
MoreGrading racism on a curve
November 11, 2008
Comments(8)An Indiana University committee made the right call yesterday when it recommended leaving the name of a segregationist
on an athletics facility, says a Ball State University historian.
John Mathew Glen says the committee appropriately recognized contributions of former judge and...
MoreScandal singes MBA entry exam
September 11, 2008
Comments(2)Not everyone who takes the Graduate Management Admission Test, which is required to get into business graduate
programs, is honest.
The organization that publishes the test, the Graduate Management Admission Council, disclosed yesterday that
it has tossed scores of 84...
MoreGetting Hoosiers through college
September 9, 2008
Comments(5)The Indiana Commission on Higher Education rolled out an ambitious goal yesterday â?? to increase the number
of graduates from state-supported colleges and universities by a third within four years.
Indiana isnâ??t plagued by too few high school grads...
MoreSAT scores stuck below average
August 26, 2008
Comments(3)This yearâ??s SAT scores are out, and there isnâ??t much to cheer about. Indiana saw math scores improve
slightly,
but reading and writing scores dropped a few points. All three remain below national averages.
Educators say the tests are...
MoreVaunted program hits turbulence
August 20, 2008
Comments(0)Ball State Universityâ??s entrepreneurship program has long been considered one of the stateâ??s crown jewels
in
business academics.
Former funeral director Don Kuratko started the program before entrepreneurship was cool and pushed it to
national prominence. Real-world business types like the...
MoreIs college for everyone?
August 15, 2008
Comments(8)Parents and teachers for more than a generation have steered students toward college and white-collar work,
and few states need the graduates more than Indiana, which has one of the lowest levels of college attainment
in the country.
Lost in the...
MoreBack to school in hard times
August 12, 2008
Comment(1)Colleges and universities tend to see enrollment boom when the economy goes south, and this down cycle appears
to be little different.
Indiana University, Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Indianapolis all have announced in recent
weeks that enrollments...
MoreFriedman's influence on Indy
July 30, 2008
Comments(2)As fans of the late Milton Friedman gather at the Conrad Hotel tomorrow night to celebrate the libertarian
economist, theyâ??ll have plenty to crow about.
Ironically, though, Friedmanâ??s ideas about turning education over to market forces have failed to gain much...
MoreIUPUI apologizes to janitor
July 14, 2008
Comments(5)How did we get to the point where someone can be accused of racial harassment for reading a scholarly book
about the Ku Klux Klan â?? a book in which the good guys, Notre Dame students, whip the bad guys,...
MoreMatch your wits with an Indian child
July 8, 2008
Comments(0)Bob Compton has taken a few arrows in the back since he began screening the film he funded, â??2 Million
Minutes,â?? last fall.
Compton, who was a venture capitalist at CID Equity Partners before striking out on his own to bankroll...
MoreDepending on a three-legged stool
June 9, 2008
Comment(1)Economic development experts have long contended that business investment and good jobs gravitate to places
where business, government and higher education are on the ball and get along together.
If one of the three legs doesnâ??t carry its weight, the other...
MoreThe sum of IU and Purdue
April 25, 2008
Comments(0)It wasnâ??t so long ago that the thought of Indiana and Purdue universitiesâ?? doing anything of consequence
together was a nonstarter.
Then they began working on economic development together, and later life science projects.
But the person who dreamed up Indianaâ??s first...
More
Back to TopCopyright © All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.
Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing.
Additional Hosting & Delivery by
Ameriana Bank took over Westfield Farmers Market for 2013 and it is held in their parking lot, corner of 32 and Carey road, 5 to 8. I am selling soap and candles there. great market!
B&T certainly has enough of our taxpayer dollars to do this thanks to Mayor Ballard. Given the firm's exceedingly poor reputation in the legal community, the basement would seem a better option.
Should read MAY hire 20 people.
Not a good location for a 300,000 home. 10th Street fumes, buses, noise. Max for this location 150,000.
The state constitution also does not say that the majority has a right to quorum, nor that the minority is required to allow them quorum. In fact, denial of quorum has been a parliamentary maneuver since the establishment of the first parliaments in the early 1600s. The right to deny quorum (and the requirement fore quorum) are to prevent exactly what happened in Indiana: A tyrannical majority pushing through odious, objectionable legislation. Denial of quorum is totally legitimate, and lest we forget, a tactic the GOP has employed many, many times to ensure their issues weren't given short shrift. By allowing the majority to impose "fines" on the minority for exercising the authority the constitution grants them (to deny quorum,) they are violating the constitution.