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Indiana Learning Lab Expands Under IDOE and Five Star Technology Solutions Partnership

The Indiana Learning Lab was launched to provide a virtual hub for educators to access lesson plans and grow professionally and offering parents resources to help their children navigate online instruction. Learn more about its expansion with @IDOE:

Success stories: Employers can play a vital role in helping their employees stop smoking

Alex Cohen is the Director of Learning and Evaluation for the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation. Public policies like higher cigarette taxes and expanded access to evidence-based cessation treatment can help lower smoking rates in Indianapolis and across the state. But employers looking to help their employees quit and improve their health today have a number of tools already available, beyond these longer-term policy efforts. Take the experience of two Fortune 500 companies who used incentives to help employees quit. In 2004, General Electric launched a program that offered employees up to $750 if they quit smoking for 12 months. To test the impact, GE randomly offered the incentive to some […]