Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett plans to meet a state mandate to offer financial instruction by
incorporating the topic in the classroom via real-world example.
Comcast Corp. is making videos seen on the Discovery Education channel available on demand to its Indianapolis-area digital
subscribers, the cable television company announced today.
State schools chief Tony Bennett said he wants a renewed commitment from parents, students and schools to improve test scores
after results released today showed that about 70 percent of Indiana students passed their spring exams.
The Hoosier Academies will start up the state’s first virtual charter program later this month, the Indiana Department of Education announced today. The state Legislature has promised to pay 80 percent of tuition for as many as 200 students, in first through fifth grades, to enroll with Hoosier Academies but take all their courses over […]
There’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.
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?
Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction stresses reading, math and competition.
Tony 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.
