Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. An aspiring teacher (left) works with students in a first-grade ...

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 ...

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In schools throughout the country, it is testing season--time for students to take the Big Standardized Test (the PARCC, SBA, or your state's alternative). This ritual really blossomed way back in the ...

This summer school districts across the state are working to fill classrooms with teachers but we've discovered the state's certification test isn't helping districts recruit teachers, it's leaving ...

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 ...

Teachers have helped students cheat on California's high-stakes achievement tests -- or blundered badly enough to compromise their validity -- in at least 123 public schools since 2004, a Chronicle ...

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 ...