Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bill would end the Praxis core test requirement just months after a new law created a pathway letting teachers eschew the ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL -- For the first time in seven years, students this year won't be able to use calculators on parts of the Minnesota Basic Skills math test. Instead, there will be a section of questions the ...

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 ...

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 ...