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ISTEP Testing Begins Today
It’s the test students have been preparing for. Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Knox Community School Corporation, Peggy Shidaker, says the ISTEP test will be administered at the Knox Community Schools this week beginning today.
“ISTEP, the applied skills portion, begins Monday. The test window is March 5th-14th. We will be testing, like every other school corporation, students in grades three through eight for Language Arts and Math,” said Miss Shidaker.
She talks about the purpose of the ISTEP test.
“The ISTEP test is to measure a student’s ability to do both Math and Language Arts at their respective grade level. They’re based on Indiana academic standards at this point.”
The third grade students will be taking a special test later this month called IREAD. Miss Shidaker will discuss this test and its impact on third grade students in tomorrow’s news.
March 5th, 2012 at 7:45 am
!The impact on our children from istep testing is greatly negative. Parents, students and teachers loathe this process of dumbing down our children. Indiana is one of ten states granted a waiver from the horrid “no child left behind act”, but let’s not stop there. The act doubled federal spending on education while student performance flatlined. No government money or intervention since the creation of the department of education in 1979 has had any postitives. Ending the department of education is essential for our children. Chew on this: the tenth plank of the communist manifesto is government control of education
March 5th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Any suggestions Mark?
March 6th, 2012 at 7:43 am
Stop all standardized testing and return control of schools locally.