New Jersey will no longer require candidates to take basic skills tests to become a teacher in the state, under a bipartisan law Gov. Phil Murphy signed Monday — the latest change state leaders have ...

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are ...

Are kids these days doomed? A concerned middle school teacher recently took to social media to explain the lack of reading and problem-solving skills in her teen students. “I don’t understand how ...

Across the country, teachers are sounding the alarm about a new kind of gap in the classroom: kids who can code on a tablet but cannot tie their shoes, write a legible sentence, or remember their own ...

Emma Lambert easily passed the writing portion of the basic skills test required of Pennsylvania teaching candidates. The math section took a few more attempts. As for reading? She failed 12 times ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, this BuzzFeed article sharing firsthand stories from teachers got a fair bit of attention. In it, teachers from ...

A general program that focuses on the fundamental knowledge and skills that individuals need to function productively in society. This CIP code is not valid for IPEDS reporting. 32.0104 ...