Education

OPINION: Don’t get too caught up in your major

Mar 29, 2022 3:39 pm

It's OK if you do not know what you want to do.

Now a union representative for the biology department, doctoral candidate Pat Wall poses on Feb. 20, 2022, outside of Jordan Hall. Wall has been organizing with the Indiana Graduate Workers’ Coalition-United Electrical Workers Union since the summer, when he found out about the organization's plans to push for union recognition.

IU graduate workers continue fighting for unionization despite tough legal environment

Feb 23, 2022 2:25 pm

Indiana Graduate Workers’ Coalition organizers plan to continue pressuring IU to recognize their union.

OPINION: Segregation in MCCSC schools is at 'Brown vs. Board of Education-era levels'

Feb 20, 2022 5:24 pm

Why redrawing school districts is the quickest path to a more equitable school system.

Students board busse Sept. 13, 2021, at Bloomington High School South. Monroe County Community School Corporation schools will be closed Wednesday through Friday.

Monroe County Community School Corporation will move school online during winter storm

Feb 1, 2022 9:20 pm

MCCSC schools will be closed Wednesday through Friday.

Franklin Hall is seen Jan. 25, 2022, on East Kirkwood Avenue. A search committee for the Media School met before summer 2021 to begin the process of searching for a new dean.

Media School dean search committee to narrow down candidates to finalists this month

Feb 1, 2022 7:20 pm

The search committee plans to bring four or five finalists to campus mid-February.

The Indiana University Regional Academic Health Center is pictured from the air at IU Bloomington on Oct. 27, 2021. IU’s clinical psychology program plans to involve its students within several departments of the IU Regional Academic Health Center which opened to patients in Bloomington this December.

IU clinical psychology program plans to involve students in Regional Academic Health Center

Dec 16, 2021 2:59 pm

Clinical training director said program will begin when professor is appointed to lead students.

A student studies Dec. 6, 2021, in the Indiana Memorial Union. Final exams for the fall semester are scheduled to begin Monday.

IU students, faculty share how to overcome finals week

Dec 7, 2021 5:25 pm

Students said it’s important to find the balance between studying and relaxing.

Then-U.S. Representative Todd Rokita speaks with the press after hearing Vice President Mike Pence speak Sept. 22, 2017, at the Wylam Center of Flagship East in Anderson, Indiana. Under Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita exists a Parents’ Bill of Rights, which provides guidelines on how parents across the state can exercise their right to monitor decisions regarding their child’s education.

IU faculty responds to Parents’ Bill of Rights’ medical, education decisions

Dec 7, 2021 11:17 am

IU faculty debate the new section on vaccination in the Parents’ Bill of Rights.

Three vials of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are pictured in 2021. The vaccine recently became available for children ages 5 to 11.

IU experts say giving COVID-19 vaccine to children is safe, effective

Dec 2, 2021 9:10 am

Rising COVID-19 positivity rates in K-12 schools are creating skepticism about vaccinating children.

Indiana youth organizations educate communities, provide resources for runaway youths

Nov 30, 2021 6:37 pm

November is the National Runaway Prevention Month.

A sign for the Monroe County Community School Corporation Administration Office is seen Sept. 2, 2021, during the afternoon dismissal at Bloomington South High School. Some parents of students in MCCSC schools are requesting the Monroe County school board reevaluate its vote to disarm all resource officers, according to WTHR.

After vote to disarm school officers, MCCSC receives backlash following gun incidents

Nov 28, 2021 5:09 pm

Monroe County residents criticized the decision to remove firearms from school resource officers.

Recycling and trash bins sit Nov. 16, 2021, in Dunn Meadow behind Franklin Hall. Recycling and trash bins are located across the IU-Bloomington campus.

IU students discuss desire for more recycling education

Nov 17, 2021 2:48 pm

Nov. 15 was annual National Recycling Day.

IU sophomore Tracy Mai and junior Diego Manansala plant a yellowwood sapling Nov. 7, 2021, behind the O'Neill School. Volunteers at Sustain IU's "A Resilient Woodland Campus" event planted 38 native trees in the hopes of improving the health of campus woodlots.

Volunteers plant native trees to improve IU campus biodiversity, climate resiliency

Nov 7, 2021 4:24 pm

Recent initiatives are taking a new look at campus woodlots as key to future ecosystem health at IU.

IU sophomore Darian Belcher becomes stress after studying Oct. 25, 2021, at the Radio-Television Building. The U.S. Department of Education announced in a press release Oct. 19 a new resource guide is available to support child and student mental, behavioral, social and emotional health issues as a result of the pandemic.

The U.S. Department of Education releases resources, funding for mental health issues

Oct 25, 2021 2:53 pm

Schools have new guidance to address mental problems in students and children.

The IU School of Public Health is located at 1025 E. Third St. Monroe County residents can be trained in mental health first aid and recognizing signs and symptoms of mental health issues this summer for free through Prevention Insights.

Free virtual mental health training offered this summer through IU organization

May 3, 2021 1:22 pm

The training sessions will run from June to August.

Bloomington High School South is one of multiple schools in the Monroe County Community School Corporation. Indiana lawmakers announced Tuesday there will be record-breaking investments going toward education in the state over the next two years.

$1.9 billion allocated to Indiana K-12 schools could help increase Monroe Co. teacher salaries

Apr 26, 2021 4:14 pm

$600 million will go toward increasing teacher pay.

Soo Sup Cha poses outside of Rogers Elementary School on Wednesday. Soo Sup is a first grade teacher who has been teaching virtually during the 2020-21 school year.

Empty chairs at empty tables: First grade teacher is lonely but hopeful

Mar 31, 2021 6:46 pm

Soo Sup Cha, 26, teaches a fully online class at Rogers Elementary School.

An empty middle school classroom is pictured. In contrast to statewide data, IU says the majority of their education graduates go on to teach.

IU educators respond to study finding 1 in 6 Indiana education majors go on to teach

Mar 25, 2021 4:56 pm

A recent study also shows a lack of diversity in the field.

A MCCSC faculty member and students pose for a photo in front of the the STEM to THEM mobile lab. MCCSC introduced the new STEAM mobile classroom, which has color-coded lab stations, whiteboard cabinets, three TV monitors and robots.

MCCSC introduces mobile classroom for computer science, programming engineering

Mar 3, 2021 3:12 pm

The project cost about $375,000 in donated funds.

Special education teacher at Highland Park Elementary School Kraig Bushey works with students on focusing skills to prepare them for traditional classrooms Oct. 13, 2016. There is a new bill in state legislature which would create a $150 million grant program, helping fund summer remedial programs to address learning loss from the pandemic.

Indiana House bill to create $150 million grant program for struggling students

Feb 8, 2021 9:01 pm

Teachers are seeing more failing grades and fewer students in class during the pandemic.