Indiana is redesigning its state test again. It’ll still be ILEARN. But now, instead of just taking ILEARN in the spring, students will experience three ILEARN checkpoints during the year in the lead-up to the real deal in the spring. The IDOE is calling this shift a “through-year model.” Continue reading From Once in the Spring to Year-Round. ILEARN’s New Look.
IREAD is Indiana’s annual test “to measure foundational reading skills based on Indiana Academic Standards through grade three.” Students take it each spring. Results drop each summer. Today, we dive deep into statewide and Marion County results. Continue reading IREAD; You Read; We Pass?
Here’s the reality. Based on this year’s SAT results, only half of Indiana 11th graders meet the college-ready benchmark for evidence-based reading and writing (EBRW). In math, it’s worse, with only 1 in 4 11th graders meeting the college-ready benchmark. Continue reading Are Hoosier High Schoolers On Track to Graduate College-Ready?
Indiana is determined for federal Title IX revisions to go over like a lead balloon. State Attorney General Todd Rokita joined a lawsuit alongside attorneys general from Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia seeking to block this legislative change. What now? Continue reading Indiana vs. the Feds: the Brewing Fight Over Title IX
The Indiana Department of Education recently announced its plans to overhaul Indiana’s high school diplomas. They’re calling it a “reinvention” of high school. But is it? Continue reading Does high school need reinventing? A look at Indiana’s newly-proposed graduation pathways.
With Holcomb on the outs (of his own accord), there’s going to be a new sheriff in town (I don’t know where the Wild West references are coming from; forgive me). And that sheriff is going to appoint a new Secretary of Education. All ye who care about the quality of education in Indiana, need we be afraid? Continue reading Who’s Afraid of the Coming Secretary of Education Appointment?
Buried in the text of House Bill 1380 are a couple provisions that will have a major impact on the future of student learning in the Hoosier state. Buckle up. It’s time to get governmental. Continue reading How Certain Provisions in House Bill 1380 Make Us a State That Works for Kids
