teaching

Indiana is trying to overhaul how children are taught to read with a statewide mandate to follow the latest scientific research. But experts say that for change to take hold, it will take work — and buy in — from educators around the state.

The IDOE survey results provide the state’s first cursive writing census and prompted one lawmaker call for more instruction.

The Indiana Commission on Improving the Status of Children wants every school district in the state to have personnel to help integrate what’s called social emotional learning into the classroom.