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Ritz: ISTEP testing to reusume in full; score validty a concern
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 16 days ago
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CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC has been fixed, a third party is likely needed to review the final scores. The general public and you, rightfully so, will feel the testing this year is not valid, she said. So we are going to be wrestling with the validity of
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School officals say computer problems plague ISTEP testing
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 20 days ago
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09 p.m. , updated April 29, 2013 at 1:09 p.m...Students in grades 3-8 in public and many nonpublic schools across the state are scheduled to take the multiple choice section of the assessment online from April 29-May 8...Students in grades 4 and 6
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During 2012, school districts work to developing marketing plans
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 5 months ago
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Something different this year for the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. was developing a marketing strategy to promote the school district. It was in response to Indiana's school voucher program, which allows parents to receive tax money to
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Teachers, staff 'raise the roof' at Cedar Hall Community School
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 9 months ago
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Gold Medal" year and most surprising forming an impromptu flash mob. The Cedar Hall staff danced to the Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling," to cheers and stomps from the more than 600 kindergarten through eighth grade students. Bruceann King, the
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Matthew Tully: ISTEP is an education milestone, not the destination
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 9 months ago
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Written by Filed Under The mayor shut down a charter school recently and the school's passionate defenders angrily argued that the decision was yet another example of the outsized influence of testing. We're in an era of testing gone mad, they argued,
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St Patrick ISTEP scores best in Duneland, registration today
Chesterton :: IN :: USA | 10 months ago
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Scores for the school were higher than all Duneland Schools as well as the Discovery Charter School...Patrick School officials said they are very proud of the teachers, students and parents for this achievement and for upholding the tradition of
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Joshua Academy, celebrating ISTEP gains, adds sixth grade
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 10 months ago
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A charter school that receives state funding, Joshua Academy is preparing for its second year in the building on East Illinois Street that for many years was Howard Roosa School...The school's pass rate showed 17 percent growth, placing it on a list
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School chief candidate calls for greater transparency in education department
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 10 months ago
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The Democrat challenging Republican Tony Bennett 's re-election as Indiana's Superintendent for Public Instruction is calling for more "transparency" at the State Department of Education. Glenda Ritz, who has taught for 33 years in an Indianapolis
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LETTER: Teamwork helped ISTEP scores
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 10 months ago
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This marks yet another year that progress has been made in the classroom...The teachers and administrators of the schools are the first people that deserve congratulations. Their hard work and dedication to children is shown through this success.
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ABDUL HAKIM-SHABAZZ: Gregg's economic Doomsday numbers just don't add up
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 10 months ago
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State Auditor Tim Berry reported a $2.1 billion state surplus and another one is on deck for next year...Even the announcement by Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg and lieutenant governor candidate Vi Simpson that state was dropping the
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