For more than a year, a "task team" lead by Diana Hadley, Mooresville High School, has worked with Indiana's Department of Education to create a set of "academic" standards that meet the needs of scholastic journalism.
     While the standards below are not official, they do represent the "best effort to date" for standards that may guide future journalism and publication classes in the near future, according to Hadley.
     "We based our standards on the extising Language Arts standards because it gives us the proper language and format to follow. Still, what we have created is unique to journalism's needs. We can only hope the new standards will be adopted soon by the DOE," Hadley said. The Advocacy Task Team hopes that DOE will act on the journalism standards before next fall semester.
     "We've worked closely with DOE officials and we've rewritten these standards to fit in with what the state has been telling us needs to be done," Hadley said.
     The Advocacy Task Team also includes Terry Nelson, Muncie Central; Jim Lang, Floyd Central and Denise Roberts, Greenwood.
     The strandareds below require Microsoft Word.

•Journalism I Standards
•Photography Standards
•Broadcast Standards
•Publication Standards