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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (AP) The failure of Indiana's online standardized test last week showed that the ISTEP+ exam is too big to fail, on many levels. Beyond the obvious and critical role it plays in ...

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Department of Education released guidance to schools Wednesday night about changes in length to the impending ISTEP test. The testing window opens Wednesday, Feb. 25. The ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The clock is ticking for Indiana educators. They have seven months to come up with a new ISTEP test, or lose $150 million in education funds. There will be no pilot year on ...