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 ...

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 ...

Nine people testified in favor of repeal last week at a hearing held by the Nebraska Department of Education. The hearing was on a department proposal to repeal Rule 23, which requires basic-skills ...

One morning, some 20 years ago, I took an anonymous phone call that stunned me. Years had passed since our decadelong federal class action discrimination lawsuit against the CBEST had ended with only ...

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 ...

It's not money, it's not unfunded mandates, it's not tenure, it's not public vs. private and it's not class size. There are two major challenges that Minnesota's K-12 education system must deal with ...

Gov. Jim Pillen signed off Tuesday on eliminating basic-skills testing for new teachers, which many say is an unnecessary and burdensome requirement keeping educators out of the classroom. Pillen ...

The recent Whitlam Institute study of the impact of high stakes testing on school students shows that the annual NAPLAN tests place undue pressure on children and cause unwarranted stress and even ...

Here are details on Colorado Senate bill SB 12-047. This bill was introduced Jan. 11 2012 and last acted on May. 3 2012, when it was the House Committee on Appropriations committee referred an amended ...

Basic skills I was saddened by the article (“Would-be teachers back end to skills test,” Feb. 1) concerning the frustration endured by students trying to pass the basic skills testing required to ...

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 ...