For the past five years, Minnesota high schools have required students to pass basic-skills tests before they may graduate. Besides students, teachers have also been affected. Our growing faith in ...

While the bill eliminates the basic skills test, New Jersey will still require teachers to hold a bachelor's degree and pass specialized tests within their subject areas. Erika Sanzi, the director ...

Recent tests adopt the following format: Part I is designed to test basic skills; it gives a list of routine exercises to which the students give answers only. No work need be shown. Part II tests ...

ST. PAUL (AP) — It didn’t go well for LaQuanda Hammons when she took Minnesota’s eighth-grade basic skills tests for the first time last February. She failed. But she was feeling better Tuesday just ...

A Bengaluru-based CEO recently sparked an online debate after revealing that most fresh graduates failed a basic Class 5 math question during job interviews. In a viral LinkedIn post, he pointed out ...