School grade panel suggests new focus on ‘growth’
If adopted by the State Board of Education, the new formula would grade schools on a 100-point scale based in part on how their students perform on standardized tests year-to-year.
If adopted by the State Board of Education, the new formula would grade schools on a 100-point scale based in part on how their students perform on standardized tests year-to-year.
The controversy about former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ emails criticizing the late historian Howard Zinn will continue this month as professors, students and staff members gather at universities around the nation to read Zinn’s writings.
Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly told reporters in a conference call Wednesday that his Skills Gap Strategy Act seeks to ensure the Department of Labor has a concerted strategy to address skills-gap issues.
With a $60 million-plus investment, the university aims to take molecules from discovery to clinical trials.
Unlike Indiana University, Purdue doesn’t plan to take sides in the fight over a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages.
The committee voted Monday to advance the recommendations to the State Board of Education, which is expected to consider adopting a new A-F grading model in November.
Indiana University has joined a campaign fighting a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages.
The Indiana University Foundation says it took in about $42 million less in the past year but that still marked its fourth-best year in fundraising.
During Gora’s 10 years leading the university, Ball State raised its academic standards and completed more than $520 million in construction and renovation projects.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has asked the Marion Circuit Court to dismiss a lawsuit Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz filed this week against 10 members of the State Board of Education she chairs.
Of the 10 teams that reached the BCS football championship game and the men's and women's basketball Final Four, only one finished with a graduation rate lower than 70 percent in the NCAA's latest report.
The plans announced Wednesday call for a building that will more than triple the size of the northeastern Indiana school's current student union in Upland.
ITT Educational Services Inc. said new-student enrollment rose 5.2 percent in the third quarter, to 20,307. However, total student enrollment was down 7 percent from a year ago, to 60,997.
A member of the Indiana Board of Education asked a Marion County judge Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit filed this week by Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz in Indiana's ongoing education battle.
A proposal calls for a medical education center that’s being developed by IU, the University of Evansville, the University of Southern Indiana and Ivy Tech Community College.
A consortium of Indiana University, Purdue University and University of Notre Dame can operate for another five years with the grant funds.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz filed a lawsuit Tuesday that accuses 10 members of the State Board of Education of violating state law in a secret effort to undermine her.
The Chamber noted that two of Indiana’s largest employers—Eli Lilly and Co. and Cummins Inc.— oppose the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage for recruitment reasons.
V. Bruce Walkup resigned Monday night, saying he didn’t want his “actions to overshadow the tremendous work of the faculty, staff and students at Ivy Tech.”
The new president of Indiana’s 181-year-old Wabash College expects the school to remain one of three all-male colleges left in the country.