Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

Skills tested on the math portion of the long-term trend assessment for 13-year-olds included calculating the area of a square and multiplying a three-digit number by a two-digit number.

Federal guidelines dictate that a test and its passing levels should correspond to “ normal expectations of proficiency within the workforce.” Yet there has never been evidence that over half of all ...

A law prohibiting the New Jersey State Board of Examiners from requiring a basic reading, writing and mathematics test for teachers went into effect on Wednesday.

A Bengaluru-based CEO recently sparked an online debate after revealing that most fresh graduates failed a basic Class 5 math question during job interviews. In a viral LinkedIn post, he pointed ...

Aspiring educators in New Jersey are no longer required to pass a basic skills test for reading, writing and math due to a new law intended to address the state's teacher shortage by lowering the ...

In July, the PA state legislature waived the requirement that aspiring teachers have to pass basic skill tests in math, reading, or writing in order to lead a classroom.

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 ...

One former state teacher of the year has called the basic skills tests “painful and laborious,” and irrelevant to the classroom.

The New Jersey law eliminates the need for prospective teachers to take the Praxis Core Test, a basic skills test for reading, writing and math.

Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law.