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 (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 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 ...

For those still unsure whether the nation’s public school system could use a reset, consider the recent news from New York. Four years ago, the state introduced a literacy exam for prospective ...

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 ...

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 ...