EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength The caller had personal knowledge that a recently deceased former employee of the defendant Commission on Teacher ...

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 ...

A New Jersey teachers union wants to change the state's standards for entering the profession. The Garden State currently requires that candidates for teacher certification pass a basic skills test ...

A New Jersey law that went into effect Jan. 1 to address an ongoing teacher shortage by eliminating certain testing required of aspiring teachers has created a social media frenzy of confusion amid ...

In regards to the diatribe against standardized elementary school testing written by Justin MacDonald and published in the weekend Daily News (Aug. 8, "Why schools are broken (hint: it's not the ...

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, fourth- and eighth-graders have fallen behind in reading and math. The teacher shortage has given new life to the effort to junk ...

The Illinois legislature has approved a proposal that would require most aspiring teachers to pass a basic-skills test before entering colleges’ teacher education programs, a standard that could set ...

A new suite of tests designed to help employers check candidatesí true level of competence in skills key to the role has been launched by Qwiz. The Qwiz Primary Skills Test assesses the crucial skills ...

Others agreed that math skills were something every alumnus should have but set the bar quite a bit lower than calculus. "I'd say long division," said Alex Gollup, an engineering major. Some students ...