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 ...

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 ...

As with many licensure tests in other professions, white candidates pass teacher licensure tests at higher rates than black and Hispanic candidates. With repeated retaking, black and Hispanic ...

Most tests that elementary teachers take to enter the profession don’t adequately measure their knowledge of best practices for reading instruction, a new analysis contends. The report, from the ...