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, ...

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 ...

(ABC NEWS) -- 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 ...

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 ...

New York • 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 ...

If you are are an aspiring teacher but lack basic skills, such as reading, then you’re in luck. New York State eliminated a requirement for teachers to pass a literacy test to become certified with ...

Last month the New York State Board of Regents eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers pass a literacy test. The problem was that black and Hispanic candidates failed the test more often than ...

Students at Western Hills Elementary give a demo of their new online literacy tutoring tool. Credit: Little Rock School District The Little Rock School District announced Wednesday that recent results ...

The reformers believe tests like New York's Academic Literacy Skills Test can serve to weed out aspiring teachers who aren't strong students. But the literacy test raised alarms from the beginning ...