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Graduation Rates
Ben Davis school boasts impressive graduation rates
January 12, 2013
Scott OlsonSeniors are earning their diploma while receiving a associate's degree.
MoreFewer Indiana schools considered 'dropout factories'
March 19, 2012
Associated PressThe number of Indiana high schools considered "dropout factories" fell by half between 2002 and 2010, from 30 to
15, according to a report released Monday.
MoreGraduation rates rise in Marion County, state
February 7, 2012
Nearly 200 more students graduated from Marion County’s public high schools last year than in the previous year, pushing
the county’s graduation rate up a notch, to 81.7 percent.
MoreIndiana schools chief lauds overhaul in annual speech
September 13, 2011
Associated PressIndiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett used his second annual assessment of the state's education system to promote
a sweeping overhaul approved this year.
MoreGoodwill to open two more Excel centers
August 23, 2011
J.K. WallThe schools, which help high-school dropouts earn their diplomas and start to receive post-secondary training, plan to enroll
300 students near the Indiana State Fairgrounds and 150 near the airport.
MoreIndiana edges toward education guarantees
June 11, 2011
J.K. WallThe state is moving to adopt a system that ensures more high school graduates can perform in college or on the job.
MoreChamber props up graduation initiative
January 8, 2011
J.K. WallA cash crunch at its Common Goal education program forced the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce this month to start
covering the program’s bills out of its coffers.
MoreGovernor wants revamped teacher evaluations
December 31, 2010
Associated PressRepublican Gov. Mitch Daniels and state schools superintendent Tony Bennett say Indiana needs a more honest look at the job
teachers and principals are doing.
MoreUnited Way hires public policy chief to focus on education issues
October 30, 2010
IBJ StaffThe position at United Way of Central Indiana had been vacant because of budget issues.
MoreCORLEY: Help a child and who knows where he'll go?
July 17, 2010
William CorleyConsider these alarming statistics: More than 6,700 Marion County students drop out of school every single year. Dropouts
earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates, and earn $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates.
MoreSmall schools give bang for buck
April 10, 2010
Economist Morton Marcus [on March 29] took issue with the notion that college and university graduation rates can be improved
by tying compensation to increases (or decreases) in institutional graduation rates.
MoreNeed quality, quantity in higher ed
April 10, 2010
In his [March 29] column, “Set sights on education, not graduation,” Morton Marcus raises a vital point about
Indiana’s higher education reform efforts—but he overlooks a larger one.
MoreEDITORIAL: It takes money to raise graduation rates
April 3, 2010
IBJ StaffAfter the 2008-2009 school year—the first of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce’s four-year Common Goal
program, the overall
graduation rate among public schools in Marion County had jumped from 69 percent to almost 74 percent.
MoreState high school graduation rates keep rising
January 8, 2010
J.K. WallAccording to data released Friday by the Indiana Department of Education, 81.2 percent of Hoosier high school students scheduled
to graduate in 2009 did.
MoreState's college graduation rates bedevil education experts
October 31, 2009
J.K. WallJust over half of students at state-supported, four-year institutions in Indiana graduate within six years—a tremendous
waste of resources by both students and taxpayers. The number of citizens with bachelor’s degrees is one of the surest
indicators of economic success in a 21st century economy driven less by workers’ hands
and more by their heads.
MoreNew higher-ed chief takes aim at dropout rates
August 3, 2009
J.K. WallTeresa Lubbers became Indiana commissioner for higher education on July 7 after serving 17 years as a Republican state
senator from Indianapolis. She says every Hoosier needs some college-level training. Lubbers got a running start on her new
job, having served as chairwoman of the senate education committee
for years. She also worked frequently at the commission’s downtown offices during May and June—after her predecessor
had
left but before the Legislature returned for a special session to pass a budget. Her new staff dubbed her SenComm.
MoreKATTERJOHN: Leaders in education primed for success
June 22, 2009
Chris KatterjohnThere's reason to believe serious progress is coming, due to the people in leadership positions for the state in three key
areas: the Department of Education, the Commission for Higher Education and Ivy Tech Community College.
MorePay for diplomas is smart incentive
May 25, 2009
Incentives have long been used as an effective tool in business to improve employee performance. But can a concept that helps
companies motivate workers also work in public education?
MoreBennett draws up education game plan
April 20, 2009
J.K. WallIndiana's superintendent of public instruction stresses reading, math and competition.
MoreLow graduation rates bode poorly for state
March 30, 2009
With high school graduation rates as low as they are in Indiana, I find it amazing that Indiana isn't at the very bottom of
the statistical ladder described in Morton Marcus' March 16 column.
MoreProject plants seeds of academic success
February 16, 2009
United Way is spending $114,000 to bring Project Seed, a program with specially trained math experts, to 11 Indianapolis Public
Schools.
MoreIndiana's new superintendent of public instruction ready to tackle challenges
November 24, 2008
Scott OlsonTony Bennett, Indiana's new superintendent of public instruction, says his priorities include restoring discipline to the
classroom, recruiting topnotch teachers and adequately compensating
them, increasing the percentage of education dollars spent directly on instruction, and reducing regulations so schools can
focus more on student instruction.
MoreIPS superintendent doesn't shy away from challenges
December 3, 2007
Tracy DonhardtIndianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White, in his third year as head of the state's
largest school district, is determined to reverse the long decline of the state's largest school district. The status quo
is not an option.
MoreIvy Tech boasts healthy enrollment, but most students wither on vine
April 23, 2007
Chris O'MalleyIvy Tech Community College--charged with cranking out workers to fill high-demand jobs in critical occupations--has an output
rate reminiscent of an old, state-owned Soviet assembly line. Incoming President Thomas Snyder is taking over a community
college system that graduates only 12 percent of its students within three years.
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