When the New York Board of Regents voted last month to eliminate a literacy test from its teacher certification requirements, many blasted the move as watering down education standards. After all, ...

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage ...

DECATUR - Sitting at a small table with literacy coach Debbie Roberts at Harris School, third-grader Katelynn Martin read a story aloud while Roberts timed her. At the end of 60 seconds, Roberts told ...

The state Board of Regents voted Monday to scrap a literacy exam for prospective teachers, in a move some critics blasted as a damaging dilution of classroom standards. Part of a package of ...

For those still unsure whether the nation’s public school system could use a reset, consider the recent news from New York. Four years ago, the state introduced a literacy exam for prospective ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Prospective teachers in New York State will no longer have to take the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), an exam designed to measure reading and writing ability. State ...

New York might soon get rid of the literacy exam requirement for prospective teachers, partly because a large amount of Hispanic and black candidates were failing it. The Associated Press reported ...

New York policymakers hit back Monday at critics who said a plan to eliminate a literacy test from the state's teacher certification requirements would lead to unqualified teachers in classrooms ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New York State is dropping a controversial literacy test that had been required for license and certification of prospective teachers. Prospective teachers will no longer have ...

It’s true that literacy skills are the building blocks of how we think, communicate, and read. We may not realize it, but they’re linked to everything we do, and they no longer encompass just knowing ...