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 ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Members of the Fort Wayne Community school board discussed ISTEP testing Monday night. A presentation covered the preparations for the upcoming testing session, set to begin on ...

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 ...

The reason I, as a home-schooling mom, am against having to have my daughter take the ISTEP test is because home-schooling is not one-style-fits-all. The whole point of our home-schooling is that I ...

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 ...

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 - 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 - 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 ...

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 ...