For the past five years, Minnesota high schools have required students to pass basic-skills tests before they may graduate. Besides students, teachers have also been affected. Our growing faith in ...

The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has asked its members to urge Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill into law that would eliminate the basic skills tests in reading, ...

Earlier this summer, the Pennsylvania state legislature waived one of the requirements for Pennsylvania students to become educators. The legislature made the decision amid the teacher shortage crisis ...

The recent decision by Gov. Brown to suspend basic skills testing has caused an uproar. We hear the concern that the elimination of testing will mean educators and students will lack standards for ...

TRENTON, N.J. (CITC) — Aspiring teachers in New Jersey are no longer required to prove they are proficient in reading, writing and math. Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Monday the elimination of the ...

Passing rates on the state's basic skills tests improved slightly this year in the Rochester school district, with 84 percent of its eighth-graders passing the reading test and 77 percent passing the ...

SALEM, Ore. -- A new Oregon law that suspends a requirement for a basic-skills test in math, reading and writing to graduate from high school is being praised by advocates as a way to rethink ...

New Jersey teachers are no longer required to take a basic skills test in reading, writing and math to get a license under new bipartisan legislation Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law last year. The ...

In a bid to address the ongoing teacher shortage crisis, the New Jersey Education Association is actively campaigning for the elimination of a basic skills test for teachers. The union, in a statement ...

A NEW suite of tests designed to help recruiters check candidatesí true level of competence in skills key to the role has been launched by Qwiz, the leaders in competency assessment. The Qwiz Primary ...

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a test of basic skills required for all teachers in California can remain in use, even though the test has resulted in limiting the number of minority ...