James E. Roberts School for Crippled Children In 1936 Indianapolis architects designed the James E. Roberts School for Crippled Children, first public school in Indiana for physically… Read More »James E. Roberts School for Crippled Children
John Hope School No. 26 The origins of John Hope School No. 26 predated its opening in 1901 as one of the earliest public schools… Read More »John Hope School No. 26
Jordan College of the Arts On April 13, 1895, the Metropolitan School of Music was founded by four private music teachers and opened for the… Read More »Jordan College of the Arts
Key Learning Community The Key School (later Key Learning Community) was founded by eight teachers in 1987 after three years of research, a… Read More »Key Learning Community
Knickerbacker Hall Knickerbacker Hall was an boarding and day school for girls, located within the complex of buildings developed around Grace Church… Read More »Knickerbacker Hall
Florentine Wilhelmina Emma Krauch (June 12, 1877-Oct. 9, 1958). Flora Krauch was responsible for developing children’s wear merchandising methods, professional saleswomen with child welfare… Read More »Florentine Wilhelmina Emma Krauch
Language Immersion Programs After several attempts to establish schools for German American children, a group of prominent, non-sectarian, liberal German Americans in Indianapolis… Read More »Language Immersion Programs
Law Schools Legal education in the early 19th century consisted of studying as an apprentice under a practicing lawyer. One of the… Read More »Law Schools
Violet Temple Lewis (May 27, 1897-Mar. 22, 1968). Violet Temple Lewis was born in Lima, Ohio, to William David Harrison and Eva Brown… Read More »Violet Temple Lewis
Literacy Census data shows a continuous decline in the percentage of Indianapolis residents reported as illiterate or presumed to be functionally… Read More »Literacy
