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. “We need more teachers,” Democratic Sen.

Math teachers are hard to find in South Dakota, and some K-12 leaders wonder whether a challenging certification test is creating a bottleneck. Almost half of aspiring teachers in South Dakota who ...

The path to high school graduation for Minnesota's next few graduating classes got significantly easier this month. The Class of 2010 was going to be the first required to pass a new series of ...

SEATTLE — Just as Washington state officials predicted, most of Washington’s high school seniors are passing the statewide exams required to graduate. But that fact doesn’t make life any easier for ...

The roadblock standing between more than half of Clark County’s 24,000 high school juniors and graduation may have been removed, or at least reduced, on Wednesday by the Nevada Board of Education. The ...

Metro Atlanta students’ success on the state’s mandatory reading test didn’t change much from last year, but there was wide variation in math results, according to the latest results on the Criterion ...

Of 44 New York school districts with high-need students and not enough funding, Schenectady posted the worst math test results for Black students this year. Of 44 New York school districts with ...

A third of Houston's fifth-graders failed the state's math exam, the school district announced Monday, meaning 4,500 students face the threat of summer school, and perhaps another year in elementary ...

After an article about North Carolina teachers failing math test required for licensure got national circulation, math-minded readers wanted to see for themselves how hard the test is. “Would have ...

Newly established passing scores on the Smarter Balanced reading, writing and math tests that Oregon students will take this spring are so demanding that state officials project as many as 60 percent ...

An aspiring teacher (left) works with students in a first-grade classroom. Most candidates who take a commonly used licensing test fail on their first try, and a quarter never pass. Photo by Aaron ...

Area fifth- and eighth-graders showed slight gains in math during the first round of high-stakes Texas tests — a trend that mirrored state results. Texas school districts received preliminary results ...