Iowa education officials are talking about ending the practice of taking the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.The tests have been a standard for Iowa kids since the 1940s.Iowa Department of Education ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A law that eliminated the basic skills test for teachers to be certified went into effect on Jan. 1 in New Jersey. Director of Outreach at Parents Defending Education Erika Sanzi ...

Earlier this summer, the Pennsylvania state legislature waived one of the requirements for Pennsylvania students to become educators. The legislature made the decision amid the teacher shortage crisis ...

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 ...

Iowa is delaying plans to switch away from the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills so the legislature can discuss cost and options for student assessments. The state had planned to launch the Smarter Balanced ...

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A new state law passed last year requires anyone who wants to be a new teacher in Minnesota to take what's called a basic skills test. But now, some are questioning whether that ...

The Illinois state board of education recently rescinded a policy that limited the number of times prospective teachers could take a basic-skills test, fearing that it was preventing too many minority ...

Interview: Sean Spiller, president of the New Jersey Education Association Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed into law the elimination of the Praxis Basic Skills test as a certification requirement for ...