The decline in Indiana’s infant mortality rate is encouraging, but we can’t stop here. Stakeholders across all sectors must play a role in significantly improving Hoosier health outcomes.

Alex Cohen is the Director of Learning and Evaluation for the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation. High-performing school leaders have a substantial impact on student achievement. Studies that aim to isolate the impact of leaders on student test scores find that moving from a low- to a high-quality principal can mean several additional months of learning. […]