Ben Edmonds, Rasul Mowatt and Carwina Weng are the newest IU Bloomington members of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an interdisciplinary organization composed of more than 500 of Indiana University's best teachers.

The Indiana University School of Education has named eight Indiana public school teachers as the Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Teacher Educators for the 2013-14 school year. In earning the prestigious honor, these teachers have an opportunity over the next year to participate in professional development opportunities and work with IU faculty and students studying to be teachers.

The U.S. Agency for International Development through Higher Education for Development has awarded Indiana University $4.2 million for a 2½-year project to promote women's access to and success in higher education in South Sudan. The grant is part of USAID's and HED's new women's leadership program targeted for South Sudan as well as Armenia, Paraguay and Rwanda.

A recently published study ranks the science education faculty at the Indiana University School of Education as the second-most productive in research based on articles published in the first decade of the 21st century. The study "U.S. Institutional Research Productivity in Major Science Education Research Journals: Top 30 for 2000's" is published in the Journal of Education and Learning.

Google has funded an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Education to develop a "Big Open Online Course," or BOOC. Daniel Hickey will offer a free course in September focused on educators and titled "Assessment Practices, Principles, and Policies" for as many as 500 students, funded by a $50,000 Google grant.

How can high schools teach academic content and the critical skills students with and without disabilities need to navigate life beyond the classroom? Educators can find answers to this question and more in a new book by two Indiana University authors.

An analysis of data from a large-scale international mathematics and science test reveals that Indiana eighth-graders outperformed most of the world and scored ahead of the U.S. average, continuing a trend for the state.

A new policy brief issued by the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy at Indiana University with the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at IU stresses the need for Indiana to act now on providing prekindergarten programs.

Educators and artists will meet at Indiana University again to explore the ways drama can help to teach. The fourth annual "Theatre in our Schools" mini-conference is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center on the IU Bloomington campus.

An Indiana University faculty member and her students from the Creativity Labs at IU Bloomington will lead a free symposium on Wednesday, March 13, in Chicago focused on learning through making. The "Make-to-Learn Symposium 2013" is a one-day event dedicated to placing making, creating and designing at the core of educational practice.

A new national study on state-by-state college completion rates finds a significant portion of students in many states transfer before completing a degree and a large percentage of non-traditional students fail to earn a degree over a six-year period.

Indiana University School of Education faculty member Curt Bonk will speak twice during this week's SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas. The conference is the education portion of the well-known South by Southwest festivals and conferences that focus on music, film and technology.

Mary Skirvin, an eighth-grade student from Brown County Junior High School, was the winner of the 2013 IU Bee at the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington on Saturday, Feb. 23.

A one-year study by an Indiana University School of Education assistant professor will help provide insight into how systems for recognizing skills and knowledge work well or need revision for use in online social communities.

The Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Indiana Student Education Association have selected a video produced by Indiana University Bloomington student Megan Van Pelt as the winner of this year's "YouTube Video Sensation Contest."

Ten high school students with intellectual disabilities are working and studying at Vincennes University Jasper Campus this semester, thanks in part to a grant from Indiana University's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and its Center on Community Living and Careers.

The Indiana Teacher Appraisal and Support System, which is a part of the Center on Education and Lifelong Learning at Indiana University Bloomington, is partnering with the Joyce Foundation to sponsor a statewide conference on teacher evaluation April 25 and 26 at the Hilton Indianapolis North hotel.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has announced that former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana's history and the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will join the faculty of IU's School of Global and International Studies. U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton will join Lugar as a distinguished scholar and professor of practice in the School of Global and International Studies. Lugar and Hamilton, whose senatorial and congressional papers are housed at IU, will also co-chair the new IU International Advisory Committee.

When schools are failing, new research from Indiana University suggests, administrators should focus on a single, annual goal if they want to obtain higher graduation rates. Schools will be less effective if they focus on a range of what could be considered less critical goals including athletic success, compliance with No Child Left Behind standards and discipline.

George Kuh, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the Indiana University School of Education, received the 2013 Robert Zemsky Medal for Innovation in Higher Education in a ceremony Thursday night in Philadelphia. The medal is awarded annually to honor individuals whose leadership in higher education has resulted in transformational change in colleges and universities.

Two Indiana University faculty members are on a list of the top contributors to the public debate about education published on the Education Week website. The second annual "Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings" includes IU School of Education professor Curt Bonk and School of Public and Environmental Affairs assistant professor Ashlyn Nelson.

The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project -- a project of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research in collaboration with the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University -- is organizing a one-of-a-kind three-day national conference on arts training and the creative workforce.

Representatives from the Milken Family Foundation surprised Indiana University School of Education alumna Candace Ewing on Thursday by presenting her with the 2012 Milken Educator Award, one of just 40 handed out across the nation every year, making her the 22nd School of Education alumni to win the award.

A new report by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project based at the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research offers important new insights into the value of an arts school education -- countering prevailing views about salary levels and job prospects as the most important indicators of alumni satisfaction and career success.

Behavior problems, not depression, are linked to lower grades for depressed adolescents, according to an Indiana University study published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.