North Carolina education officials are recommending that the state end a testing requirement for college students who want to become teachers. Typically, for a college sophomore to be admitted into a ...

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 ...

Peter Wilds-Bethea never intended to become a teacher. He started going to school in his home town of Darlington, South Carolina, around the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

At some point during the year, most students in U.S. schools will take a benchmark test. These tests, also called interim assessments, are designed to measure students’ progress toward instructional ...