Chicago Public Schools Change The ISAT

The Chicago Public Schools changed their entrance from the I-SAT to Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress test (NWEA-MAP) and the first test scheduled under this new system is in the coming month of May.

Conducted through using a computer, the new test adapts to the abilities of the candidates, meaning if a student answers a question right, they will get an even harder question the next time and if the student answers it wrong, the next question would be simpler.

Students have been studying for the previous I-SAT exam and now are facing anxiety. Parents are also very angry. They did not receive and prior notice to the changing of exams.


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Sandy Hook Teacher Pays it Forward

On December 14, 2012, an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut saw the face of evil. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza, a troubled young man with a history of mental illness, entered the school and began shooting. By the time the murderous rampage was over, more than twenty people were murdered, including the school’s principal, the school’s psychologist, 4 educators and 20 first grade students.

It is impossible to adequately define the psychological damages to the massacre’s survivors.

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