Claire Fiddian-Green: We must improve STEM education to be competitive
A future in which automation and AI impact every sector of our economy is just a few short years away.
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Claire Fiddian-Green: To improve outcomes, train more Black teachers
This Black History Month, we should commit ourselves to closing the persistent Black-white academic achievement gap.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Ensuring Hoosier children can read should be 2021 goal
Let’s apply the same sense of urgency to ensuring students learn to read as we have to producing a coronavirus vaccine.
Claire Fiddian-Green: We must plan now to address learning losses
It has become increasingly clear that K-12 student learning outcomes will be affected by COVID-19.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Let’s focus on our shared democracy
Regardless of political views, geography, race, ethnicity, religion, income or gender, our votes all count the same.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Investments in public health are key to addressing racial disparities
As we continue to work together to enable children and adults to return safely to school and work, we must prioritize addressing the underlying factors that have resulted in the racial disparities exposed by the pandemic.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Don’t stop at addressing digital divide for students
As we work to address barriers to eLearning, we should also use the pandemic as an opportunity to shine a light on broader inequities in K-12 education.
VIEWPOINT: Increasing access to medicine critical to opioid treatment
Myriad factors drive the gaps in access to medication for opioid use disorder.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Leaving a legacy: Lessons from two role models
Define your purpose in life. Work hard to achieve it. Invest in your personal relationships.
Claire Fiddian-Green: A big hairy goal—boost math literacy in Indiana
Hoosier students are not acquiring the math skills they need for success in a global economy.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Let’s build bridges with people who don’t think like us
Why not strengthen fraying relationships by developing solutions in areas where we agree?
Claire Fiddian-Green & Maureen Weber: Preschool teachers are important. Pay them accordingly
The professional training required to build and sustain the skills to teach our youngest learners is expensive and time-consuming, especially relative to the pay. This makes it challenging to find and retain well-trained teachers.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Don’t forget about the significant dangers of cigarettes
Years of data from across the United States show that, when the price of nicotine-containing products increases, consumption decreases.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Some want to nix ILEARN. Here’s why we shouldn’t.
This year’s ILEARN results, while disappointing, tell us that we aren’t meeting the needs of students and their teachers.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Restoring optimism begins with building trust
We have the ability to restore our nation’s collective confidence in one another by focusing on what we can control.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Indiana’s moonshot should be to become a healthy state
Indiana ranks 41st out of 50 states for people’s overall health, and the top driver of this low ranking is Indiana’s high prevalence of smoking.
Youth e-cigarette use is accelerating like a runaway train
E-cigarettes were introduced to the United States in 2006 with a primary goal of helping adult smokers quit. Today, one in five American high schoolers uses e-cigarettes, and there’s been a subsequent rise in the use of all tobacco products among youth under the age of 18. This increase in tobacco-product consumption comes after a […]
Claire Fiddian-Green: By speaking up, we can all help Hoosiers thrive
As Americans, we have ample freedom to seek change aimed at addressing inequalities.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Mental-health screening for children must be norm
It’s as if we collectively shrug our shoulders and say, “These diseases are too hard to handle, so you’re on your own.”
Claire Fiddian-Green: We need addictions counselors. Here’s how to get them.
Many who need help—especially those relying on low-cost, community-based care—struggle to obtain it.