Expect your child to spend hours a day feeling antsy and filling out bubbles with a No. 2 pencil to start the month. It's ISAT time-aka Illinois Standard Achievement Test time, and Illinois state law ...

Third- through eighth-graders across the state will take the Illinois Standards Acheivement Tests this week to see if their skills are up to state standards. Many local schools are holding events to ...

It also means an increasing emphasis on the test by teachers. "After next week, you won't have to listen to me say ISAT for the rest of the year," Jones told her class as she helped them work on math ...

The test is being phased out and will no longer be used to measure a student's progress when attempting to enroll in certain schools. Just as this horrible winter winds down, in March it's ISAT time ...