By pairing at-risk youth with college-aged mentors, College Mentors For Kids is hoping to promote academic achievement and personal growth.

Regular poetry is meant for the page. Slam Poetry is meant for the stage.

Emma Donnan Elementary School is one of five new schools this year in the Indianapolis Public Schools District as the result of a state law passed last year.

The Indiana Department of Education says eight struggling schools across the state will receive more than $8 million in improvement grants to help turn around student performance.

State Department of Education projections provided Tuesday to a legislative panel show that the state's next ISTEP test is expected to take about nine hours. That would make it some three hours shorter than the test given to Indiana students earlier this year.

After three years under management of a private company, Arlington Community High School has returned to Indianapolis Public Schools. It's the first school under state intervention to transition back to its home district and school leaders are under pressure from the community and state to make it work. WFYI education reporter Eric Weddle will spend a year reporting from inside the school on it successes and challenges.

The thousands of poor Indiana children who will attend new publicly funded preschool programs this year through Gov. Mike Pence's state preschool pilot and an Indianapolis program sponsored by Mayor Greg Ballard all have one thing in common. They all must be legal U.S. residents.

Adam Lonnberg of Evansville's Signature School and Margaret Christy of Franklin Central on Indianapolis' southside were named 2015's Mr. and Miss Math. Adit Chandra and Helena Ma, both from Carmel High School were named Mr. and Miss Science.

Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lewis Ferebee and two other administrators are at the White House today for a conversation on school discipline. Reducing suspension and expulsions rates is a priority of the Obama administration and is an ongoing focus at IPS.

Researchers say they've come up with a 30-minute test that can predict a child's language skill and diagnose learning disabilities.