Principals are often the most important instructional leaders in high schools. Indiana's high school graduation rate is 81 percent. According to the Indiana Youth Institute, that rate rose seven percent in the past three years. However, there are still a lot of low performing high schools in...

The role of high school principals is changing, but perhaps not as much as is the expectation that their students excel. In the second segment of The Principal Factor, WFYI's Sharon Alseth looks at some of the challenges in a new era of how principals are trained and defined.

Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett says it's vital that high school students know what's expected of them, as they prepare to enter college and the job market. The push is on to make more Indiana communities economic development centers, and that takes well-educated and...