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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federally funded pilot program aimed at helping students improve their reading skills has proven to be a huge success in ...