Data from federal standardized test scores points to another startling effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on America's children, with numbers indicating that reading and math scores for 13-year-olds ...

Skills tested on the math portion of the long-term trend assessment for 13-year-olds included calculating the area of a square and multiplying a three-digit number by a two-digit number.

Aspiring educators in New Jersey are no longer required to pass a basic skills test for reading, writing and math due to a new law intended to address the state's teacher shortage by lowering the ...

The state's public school average was 71 percent in math and 81 percent in reading. Some of Rochester's other private schools also did well on the basic skills tests.

A law prohibiting the New Jersey State Board of Examiners from requiring a basic reading, writing and mathematics test for teachers went into effect on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — Sometimes the best isn't good enough: Most American fourth and eighth graders still lack basic skills in math and science despite record high scores on a national exam. Yes, today's ...

Federal guidelines dictate that a test and its passing levels should correspond to “ normal expectations of proficiency within the workforce.” Yet there has never been evidence that over half of all ...

The removal of the basic skills test requirement comes as New Jersey students struggle to recover learning losses following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emma Lambert easily passed the writing portion of the basic skills test required of Pennsylvania teaching candidates. The math section took a few more attempts. As for reading? She failed 12 times … ...

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 ...

A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.