This March 8, 2017 photo shows the front page of a document explaining a certification exam known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test, designed to measure the reading and writing skills of aspiring ...

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, ...

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 black and ...

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 outsize percentage of ...

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 ...

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At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

This fall, the Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. in Baltimore has published the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™), a groundbreaking assessment that tests listening, speaking, ...

New York might soon get rid of the literacy exam requirement for prospective teachers, partly because a large amount of Hispanic and black candidates were failing it. The Associated Press reported ...

DECATUR - Sitting at a small table with literacy coach Debbie Roberts at Harris School, third-grader Katelynn Martin read a story aloud while Roberts timed her. At the end of 60 seconds, Roberts told ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 black and ...