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 ...

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 ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength The caller had personal knowledge that a recently deceased former employee of the defendant Commission on Teacher ...

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 ...

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 ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. This story was updated to include the ...

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 ...

A new suite of tests designed to help employers check candidatesí true level of competence in skills key to the role has been launched by Qwiz. The Qwiz Primary Skills Test assesses the crucial skills ...