Preparing students for college and careers

Indiana's Education Roundtable, an advisory body which helped create the ideas that legislators recently transformed into education-reform laws, is looking to monitor how well students are preparing for college. They hope a package of new standardized tests might be part of the equation.

• http://www.parcconline.org — learn more about the organization creating the new tests the roundtable is examinig.
• http://www.corestandards.org — learn about the standards by which teachers will create curriculums, students will learns, and officials will base tests.
• http://www.in.gov/edroundtable — learn about the organization that worked — and works — behind the scenes to shape Indiana's public schools.

Learn more about the new tests in the Saturday, May 28, News-Banner.