The now famous Wesman Personnel Classification Test that started all the trouble in the Dallas Independent School District was not designed specifically to examine teacher competence. The test that 36 ...

This is part of a series from education blogger Laura Waters of NJ Left Behind. One of the most contentious issues surrounding education reform is whether or not one can measure teacher effectiveness ...

For example, one plaintiff was a first-grade teacher evaluated based on the third-grade test scores of students she herself never taught. Another was a high school math teacher who mostly taught ...

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I am a longtime educator and I plan to vote “Yes” on Question 2, which would replace the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement. Instead, students would need to demonstrate that they have ...

Schools are required to test the progress of their English learners each year to determine whether they still need language instruction services or can exit out of such programs. In close to 40 states ...

Teachers from New York and California who apply to teach in Oklahoma will now have to answer questions meant to screen out “woke indoctrinators” with left-wing views — the latest attempt by Oklahoma ...

Results for 2024 show just 88.1 per cent of aspiring teachers passed the literacy component of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) the first time – down from a high ...