SAGE Regional Meetings
Utah State Office of Education staff has been traveling around the state for regional meetings to provide updated information and respond to questions in regards to the new computer adaptive assessment...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: April 3, 2014
In today's ENR: Governor Herbert vetoes the curriculum review committee bill. Senate will decide by Monday on a veto override session. Child sex abuse penalties get harsher for person in a position of...
View ArticleSAGE Family Brochure
Students have been required to take year-end tests for years. In 2008, Utah began to field new computer adaptive tests, and the success of this testing system led the Utah State Legislature to...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: April 25, 2014
In today's ENR: Standard-Examiner looks at out outs from this spring's SAGE exams. And looks into whether or not SAGE is actually ... a federal plot. Congratulations to Utah's Presidential Scholars...
View ArticleNew SAGE Test Results
Final results from last spring’s first-ever computer-adaptive Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence (SAGE) tests showed 41.7 percent of Utah’s public school students are on track to be college...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Oct. 27, 2014
In today's ENR: Utah releases the first-ever SAGE results based upon the new, more rigorous Utah Core Standards. Here's your chance to catch up on local school board races. Weber Supt. Stephens...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Oct. 29, 2014
In today's ENR: SAGE test results follow up continues. There's also follow up to Education First and Prosperity 2020's event on Utah education. If the GOP takes over the Senate (the one in D.C.), will...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Dec. 8, 2014
In today's ENR: Utah is leasing some of its year-end test questions to Florida, Tennessee and Arizona. D-News looks at STEM education and STEM employment. Trib takes a look at online threats, including...
View ArticlePACE and School Grades Stats
Here are some statistics from the 2014 Utah accountability reporting on PACE and school grades released on Monday, Dec. 15 by the Utah State Office of Education. . . . → Read More The post PACE and...
View ArticleNew SAGE Tutorial Tool
A new item type tutorial has been placed on the SAGE portal. The Equation Response tutorial displays a basic numeric keypad or a full array of mathematical operators, symbols, and functions that must...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: May 4, 2015
In today's ENR: Students in Cache County are using an academic bowl to prepare for this year's SAGE tests. Congratulations to this year's Utah Teacher Innovation Awards winners. Congratulations to...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: June 2, 2015
In today's ENR: This year's SAGE results are being reported to parents. Voices for Utah Children looks at the status of children in the state. KUER looks at access to autism treatment in Utah. And in...
View ArticleEducation Finance Committee Meeting
The Utah State Board of Education Finance Committee will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 9 at the Utah State Office of Education, 250 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City. The complete agenda along...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Sept. 1, 2015
In today's ENR: There's follow up on yesterday's SAGE test results news. KUER looks at the student achievement gaps between Native American students and other Utah students. Nationally, House Ed Chair...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Sept. 3, 2015
In today's ENR: Trib digs deeper into SAGE data to look at charter school performance. UVU is having some success in reaching out to Latino students in Utah. Davis Districts hosts an education forum...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Sept. 14, 2015
In today's ENR: Teens are using this calculator app for something other than math class, and it's worrying parents. Davis School Board to hold open houses on $298 million school bond. Cache District...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: Sept. 15, 2015
In today's ENR: The Utah State Office of Education released the 2015 accountability reports for K-12 public schools. Results show improvements. Photos: Singers perform, deliver anti-bullying message at...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: March 23, 2016
In today's ENR: BYU looks at Utah's shortage of math and science teachers. St. George News looks at charter school pupil transportation. AFT takes credit for one of the SAGE bills passed in Utah this...
View ArticleState Board’s April Agendas
The Utah State Board of Education will hold a study session, meeting acting as the governing board of the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, and its committee meetings on Thursday, April 14 and...
View ArticleEducation News Roundup: May 2, 2016
In today's ENR: Herald Journal takes a look at opt outs. Logan School District is shaking up its elementary principal assignments next year. Today is the first day of Teacher Appreciation Week. Time...
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