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 ...

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...

Sample questions from test measuring basic thinking skills Tests are taken on a laptop computer in the test-taker%27s home Literacy%2C math%2C problem-solving are the areas measured by the tests These ...

At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

WEST MEMPHIS (Evening Times) - It's something that the teachers and students at West Memphis High School work toward from the beginning of the school year - getting prepared for the 11th grade ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be ...