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Education & Workforce Development
High school dropouts go under microscope: IPS seeks answers from leaders on costly problem
November 6, 2006
Chris O\'malleyIndianapolis Public Schools late this month plans to convene a community panel to help the state's largest school system implement
a dropout prevention plan next spring. The first public meeting of the 50-person panel is set for Nov. 27 and comes as a new
report suggests Indiana dropouts cost taxpayers $62 million a year. The panel is made up of a wide range of people, from parents
to community leaders. Each of the estimated 21,000 dropouts statewide costs the state...
MoreNOTIONS: A memo to winning pols from the middling masses
November 6, 2006
Bruce HetrickOne of my sons will vote for the first time this week. His twin got so busy with schoolwork and extracurriculars that he missed
the registration deadline. With only a fraction of eligible American voters casting ballots on the Tuesday after the first
Monday this November, "majority rules" once again will be a misnomer. In fact, with only the most partisan and deep-pocketed
among us ruling the day and candidates pandering primarily to such activists' priorities, "fringe rules" would more...
MoreEYE ON THE PIE: We all could use a dose of civility
November 6, 2006
Morton MarcusWhenever life seems too gloomy to endure, there is relief to be found in the antics of the Bloomington City Council. That
body of jokesters recently voted to permit households within the city limits to keep up to five chickens. These chickens will
help supply fresh eggs, thereby reducing the community's dependency on unnatural food sources. (No, dear reader, I did not
make this up.) We will not claim the City Council of Bloomington is sexist because it permits egg-laying...
MoreNew ballet school takes over space left by failed dance group
September 25, 2006
Nick CrewsVictoria Lyras began classes for her newly created Indianapolis School of Ballet Aug. 21 in 10,500-square-foot quarters on
Capitol Avenue that previously housed Ballet Internationale's Clara R. Noyes Academy, which closed in November because
of financial problems. ISB has 20 students so far.
MoreEstate planning lawyers can become specialists: New exam lets Indiana attorneys become certified
September 25, 2006
Michael W.Attorney Jeff Hawkins has focused his law practice on estate planning and administration law for 14 years. He considers himself
experienced but is not yet ready to declare himself a "specialist" or "certified" estate-planning attorney. That happens in
November, and the designation depends on results of an exam. The Indiana State Bar Association has recently adopted a plan
to make estate planning and administration a specialty status of law in Indiana, joining four other focuses that have donned
the stature...
MoreVOICES FROM THE INDUSTRY: Taxes, school, health costs challenge affluent families
September 25, 2006
Ralph NowakAffluent families face many threats to their wealth. But three forces eroding the legacies in almost all of them are taxes,
education costs and post-retirement health care. Fortunately, with proper planning, there are steps you can take to help ensure
your wealth carries you through retirement comfortably with ample left over for your heirs. Make taxes manageable Taxes may
be unavoidable but they can be managed in a way that makes them less destructive to your wealth. Specifically, the alternative...
MoreTAWN PARENT Commentary: Our dead deserve better than this
September 25, 2006
Forget coming late to the daylightsaving time party. Even higher on the list of things we Hoosiers should be embarrassed about
is our coroner system. Of course, embarrassment isn't the half of it. More troubling is that we elect and counties pay coroners
who need no qualifications whatsoever, other than being adults and living in the county where they're elected. (Their day
jobs range from truck driver to boat pilot.) Worst of all is the hindrance these underqualified officials can...
MoreNOTIONS: Dear philanthropist: Make me a daydream believer
September 18, 2006
Bruce HetrickLast month, I picked up my boys in Fort Wayne, drove north on Interstate 69, hooked a left at Interstate 94, and got off at
the Portage, Mich., exit. There, we whiled away the weekend at a family reunion. The grownups ate too much, caught up on gossip
and puttered around the lake in the speedboat. The teenagers, whom we rarely saw, did X-Box battle in the basement. On Sunday,
after the kids had surfaced for lunch and the grandparents...
MoreStudent sponsorship deal raises money, criticism
September 11, 2006
Andrea MuirraguiThe Indianapolis office of Zurich-based UBS Financial Services Inc. is experimenting with "adopting" the freshman class at
Herron High School as the UBS Scholars of 2010. Its foundation made a $100,000 gift to the startup charter school, and local
employees made a commitment to tutor, mentor and otherwise support its first 92 students.
MoreState's new arts leader plans to take more public role: Indiana Arts Commission's strategy calls for Executive Director Lewis
Ricci to be a vocal advocate for funding
September 11, 2006
Jennifer WhitsonIn the fall of 2005, the Indiana Arts Commission started a rigorous study to draft its next five-year strategy. After public
hearings around the state, the full 15-member arts commission voted this summer to adopt the new plan. And now commissioners
have someone to implement it. The chosen man, Lewis Ricci, is itching to take over the spot and turn the commission into a
bully pulpit for the importance of the arts-and the need for public funding. "Advocacy is one...
MoreTOM HARTON Commentary: Crime takes indirect swipe at the arts
September 11, 2006
In Indianapolis, when the crime rate goes up or kids' test scores go down, it's not uncommon for people to point the finger
at publicly funded sports facilities. "Our priorities are screwed up," observers opine. "We spend too much money on these
playgrounds for the rich, and not enough on cops, courts and public education." The sports establishment here has been batting
away this criticism for years. It goes with the territory in a city where sports is an important...
MoreMuseums trip out over loyal donors: Cultural organizations are offering travel opportunities to generous patrons to inform
them, gain more support
September 11, 2006
Scott OlsonWith a new director in place and a $74 million renovation and expansion complete, the next step for the Indianapolis Museum
of Art is courting donors to financially back the enlarged operations. Those who pledge at least $2,500 to the IMA are invited
to accompany, at their own expense, IMA Director Maxwell Anderson and his wife on a cruise in the fall of 2007 to Spain, France
and Italy. The excursion coincides with the opening next year of the museum's...
MoreBRIAN WILLIAMS Commentary: Downtown needs a grand, artful facility
September 11, 2006
On Sept. 1, 45 competitors from nearly 20 countries arrived for the seventh quadrennial International Violin Competition of
Indianapolis. Through the middle of September at venues around the city, these talented men and women will compete for one
of the richest artistic prizes in the world. In a few short months, the American Pianists Association will undertake its biennial
competition for the Cole Porter Jazz Fellowship. Again, a cadre of some of the instrument's most accomplished American performers
will come...
MoreYoung architect honored for design of orphanage: Cluster complex plan wins international competition
September 4, 2006
Jennifer WhitsonChunsheh Teo is a driven man. The 28-year-old sometimes works long days as an architectural graduate at Ratio Architects Inc.
and spends his off time building furniture for the home he and his wife recently purchased in Irvington. On a recent weekend,
he built a new fence for the yard. Oh, and he also enters international design competitions in his down time-about seven in
the last three years. "It's just kind of a fun thing to do," Teo said. At...
MoreSt. Vincent makes bigger investment in charity care: Need drives construction of Primary Care Center set to open in mid-2007
August 28, 2006
Tom MurphyHere's a lesson they don't teach in business school: Take an entity that loses $4 million annually and expand it 50 percent.
That's the plan St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital unveiled earlier this month when it broke ground on a new, larger Primary
Care Center serving indigent, underinsured and uninsured patients. That population of poor, mostly Spanish-speaking patients
has more than doubled its annual visits since 2000. St. Vincent officials say the new $4 million center is 10 years overdue.
Their...
MoreCulinary training gains popularity as restaurant boom continues
August 28, 2006
Victoria D. WilliamsIndiana Business College will launch a Chef's Academy downtown next month, offering an 18-month program intended to produce
trained "culinarians." Ivy Tech Community College, meanwhile, is looking for space to expand its two-year culinary arts program,
which has seen explosive growth.
MoreRacing toward a new type of learning center: Decatur, Panther team up on educational facility
August 28, 2006
Scott OlsonMention a career in motorsports to most youngsters and they imagine whizzing around the track like NASCAR's Tony Stewart or
Sam Hornish Jr., points leader of the Indianapolis Racing League. But a partnership between Indianapolisbased Panther Racing
LLC and Decatur Township Schools wants to introduce students to more practical professions within the sport by providing the
resources in a hands-on learning environment. The result is the Panther Education Center, set to open next fall near the racing
team's headquarters at...
MoreNOTIONS: Has our love for labor been lost?
August 28, 2006
Bruce HetrickBruce Hetrick is on vacation this week. In his absence, this column, which appeared on Sept. 1, 2003, is being reprinted.
The Labor Days of my memory are happy-sad affairs. The weather is muggy. The family's gathered at some park or pond, river
or lake. Burgers sizzle on the grill. Frisbees fly through the air. And after supper, there's touch football with dads and
brothers, kids and cousins, until dusk drops her shadowy curtain on yet another summer. In my...
MorePROFILE FIRST JURY INC.: Practice makes perfect Local trial consultants aim to help lawyers prepare for litigation
August 28, 2006
Susan RaccoliPROFILE FIRST JURY INC. Practice makes perfect Local trial consultants aim to help lawyers prepare for litigation Blame the
name. Attorneys could be forgiven if they thought hiring Indianapolis-based First Jury Inc. would get them advice on choosing
a jury sympathetic to their clients' cause. But its staff won't tell them to avoid the woman with her arms crossed or the
man who won't make eye contact. Instead, they'll assemble a jury of their own and stage a mock trial,...
MoreWoman sets sights on freedom: Disability isn't keeping shop owner from goal
August 28, 2006
Candace BeatyTwo doors opened for Pam Evans on Aug. 5-one to her own clothing store and the other to her independence. The Cherry Shop
represents both to Evans, who lost most of her sight over the course of a weekend in 1998 to a genetic eye disease called
angioid streaks. Left with only her peripheral vision, she also lost her career in real estate and corporate sales. After
a period of depression, Evans decided she wouldn't lose it all. "I felt...
MoreCharter schools leader tackles new role: Mayor chooses Harris to launch broader public education program
August 28, 2006
Scott OlsonThe Indiana General Assembly's decision in 2001 to hand Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson the keys to the city's new charter
schools initiative marked the first time in the nation that a municipal leader had been given the authority to grant charters.
The unusual approach to improve educational opportunities here has earned the city several accolades, including last month's
prestigious Harvard University Innovations in American Government Award. Now the mayor wants to expand upon the program's
success and launch a not-for-profit...
MoreLean manufacturers take stock of accounting innovation: Fishers company optimistic movement will gain favor
August 28, 2006
Anthony SchoettleThe leanest aspect of lean manufacturing is moving from the shop floor to the accounting office, where a new recordkeeping
system is gaining a following. Proponents of so-called lean accounting say it's better than traditional accounting at measuring
the cost savings and efficiencies of lean manufacturing, a business-improvement strategy that shortens the time between customer
order and shipment. Instead of simply looking at inventory levels and sales numbers as traditional accounting does, lean accounting
measures things such as worker productivity...
MoreECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Simplistic ideas get in way of efforts to increase wages
August 21, 2006
Patrick BarkeyTo the small cadre of economists who have worked their entire professional lives trying to understand the complexities of
how and why the labor market rewards some skills, occupations and people more than others, the popularity of the idea of a
government-mandated minimum wage must be depressing. But it shouldn't be surprising. The notion that complex market outcomes
can be explained by simplistic notions like greed or discrimination-solvable by the stroke of a lawmaker's pen-will probably
always have a superficial...
MoreIU hires consultant for business plan overhaul
August 21, 2006
Peter SchnitzlerTaking a page from Purdue University's playbook, Indiana University has quietly put its economic-development efforts under
review. IU hired Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group this month to examine its process of economic development and evaluate
whether it matches Gov. Mitch Daniels' business-first agenda.
MoreRETURN ON TECHNOLOGY: Programmers make lousy site designers
August 21, 2006
Tim AltomMany, perhaps most, Web sites are hard to use. That applies to commercial sites, personal sites, almost any kind of site.
In the early days of the Web, nobody was surprised at this, because the Web was a dancing bear. The wonder wasn't that it
danced gracefully, but that it danced at all. Today, visitors are much more discerning. In fact, there is a cottage industry
in lambasting poorly designed sites. One of my favorite places to go on the...
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We loved lakehouse and think the Arbor Village would be a great location. It is less than 2 miles from over 1000 rooftops in the 225,000 to over 1 million range. Many people could use the great fishers trail system to bike or walk there. Just an idea Scotty -- but maybe something closer to 3 Wiseman would good. The only microbrew in area is Ram (boring)
True, it's an ESPN production, but ESPN is just another name for ABC Sports, or what used to be ABC Sports since ABC Sports no longer exists as a name. ESPN=ABC Sports= ESPN. ESPN is, according to Forbes "the world's most valuable media property" worth $40 billion. Despite that, they fired 400 people this week.
The Prestige was a great flick.
Larry - even though the race is on ABC, ESPN does all of the work, so that is why ESPN is mentioned. Most sports on ABC are called something like "ESPN on ABC."
My oldest daughter graduated from IU with a Secondary Education degree. She graduated with honors and spent 3 years trying to find a teaching job in Indiana. Many of her fellow education degree graduates still don't have teaching jobs. As schools downsize and cut budgets, less teaching jobs are available. I'm not sure I see why we feel the need to bring more teachers to Indiana.