INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The Indiana Senate approved a measure on Tuesday that could ultimately lead lawmakers to ditch the state’s troubled ISTEP standardized student exam. A measure passed on a 38-10 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Killed off seven months ago by the General Assembly and Gov. Mike Pence following repeated test administration and technology errors, the ISTEP standardized exam appears to be slowly ...

Indiana Governor Mike Pence is taking a dramatic step to cut the length of this year's ISTEP test. The first round of testing is scheduled to begin in March. The governor signed an executive order to ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, on Tuesday tapped four local education and business leaders to the new statewide ISTEP review panel. A recently passed law calls for ...

Students in Hancock County cheered on their classmates as they got ready to take the ISTEP test. They chanted "Do your best on the test" to the 3rd - 5th graders filing down the hall at Fortville ...

Home-schoolers should not take the ISTEP test. The ISTEP test is designed to test how well public school students learned the curriculum taught, and home-schooled students do not necessarily follow ...

Laubert, like other teachers, is bothered at times by the uncertainty of what the future holds. Sometimes, lack of state funding delays the start of a new test. For example, until recently, it wasn't ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Indiana legislators want answers about this year's ISTEP problems. A legislative panel is studying why 78,000 students were frozen out of the test. The panel will meet on ...

Indiana students haven’t begun answering a single question on the next round of the standardized ISTEP exam, and already policymakers are asking whether the technology used to administer the test is ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana lawmaker has proposed having teachers grade the state's new standardized test as major decisions for the replacement of the current ISTEP exams loom. Republican state ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz has called a special meeting of the State Board of Education to address the added length of the ISTEP test. The move comes after parents ...

(INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 16th, 2004)-- Indiana schools are spending millions of dollars and trying new teaching techniques in an effort to boost scores on this fall's Indiana Statewide Testing for ...