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 the ...

The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has asked its members to urge Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill into law that would eliminate the basic skills tests in reading, ...

One morning, some 20 years ago, I took an anonymous phone call that stunned me. Years had passed since our decadelong federal class action discrimination lawsuit against the CBEST had ended with only ...

Aspiring public school teachers in New Jersey are no longer required to pass the state’s basic skills exam in order to be certified. New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy passed Act 1669 as part ...