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 bill would end the Praxis core test requirement just months after a new law created a pathway letting teachers eschew the basic skills test. (Courtesy of the New Jersey Governor's Office) A bill ...

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 ...

Schools all over the state will soon be using new basic skills assessments, under changes made by the Minnesota Department of Education. The Minnesota Basic Skills Test will slowly be phased out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A law that eliminated the basic skills test for teachers to be certified went into effect on Jan. 1 in New Jersey. Director of Outreach at Parents Defending Education Erika Sanzi ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Wisconsin System is committing to a plan that could eventually lead to tests for a sample of freshmen and seniors designed to measure skills such as problem solving and communication ...