Indiana ISTEP+ battles puts spotlight on testing challenges

Thousands of Indiana students are buckling down to a new standardized test this week after an uproar over longer exams forced education leaders, lawmakers and Gov. Mike Pence to step in and shorten the assessment taken annually by about 450,000 students. The battle over the ISTEP+ exam, which was revamped after Indiana abandoned the national Common Core standards to create its own, has cast an uncomfortable spotlight on the challenges states face as they try to forge their own paths to school accountability.

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