{"id":808,"date":"2016-10-20T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T22:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/?p=808"},"modified":"2016-11-10T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:25:21","slug":"glenda-ritz-jennifer-mccormick-field-tough-questions-from-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/glenda-ritz-jennifer-mccormick-field-tough-questions-from-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenda Ritz, Jennifer McCormick Field Tough Questions from Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18, formal state superintendent Glenda Ritz and state superintendent candidate Jennifer McCormick were asked various questions from a crowd of 65 at Ball State University\u2019s Alumni Center. One topic discussed was on testing. Ritz wants to implement a computer-adaptive test that focuses on reading rather than writing, which will save the state $12 million. This test would be taken three times a year and a writing test would occur only in fifth and eighth grades. It would also decrease the testing time by eight hours. McCormick wants to test students once a year and does not want to wait until fifth grade to test students on their writing skills. Third to eight graders would take a test that would look similar to ISTEP, but the time it takes to complete the test will be decreased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/story\/news\/education\/2016\/10\/18\/ritz-mccormick-field-tough-questions-public\/92312278\/\">Click here to learn more about Glenda Ritz, Jennifer McCormick Field Tough Questions from Public<\/a><br \/>\nAbstract by Elizabeth Wood, AIR apprentice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18, formal state superintendent Glenda Ritz and state superintendent candidate Jennifer McCormick were asked various questions from a crowd of 65 at Ball State University\u2019s Alumni Center. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,48,2,21],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-grade","category-news","category-audience","category-speaker","tag-istep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/air\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}