Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bill would end the Praxis core test requirement just months after a new law created a pathway letting teachers eschew 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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL -- For the first time in seven years, students this year won't be able to use calculators on parts of the Minnesota Basic Skills math test. Instead, there will be a section of questions the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...