Students are taking more standardized basic skills tests than ever. But before they can teach the skills, teachers have to show they have them, and that can sometimes be more daunting than the word ...

Aurora University will host six review sessions in January and February to help students prepare for the Illinois State Board of Education Basic Skills Test. Education and social work majors who plan ...

Iowa education officials are talking about ending the practice of taking the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.The tests have been a standard for Iowa kids since the 1940s.Iowa Department of Education ...

Aurora University will host review sessions this month and in February to help college students prepare for the Illinois State Board of Education Basic Skills Test. The public is invited to the series ...

The bill would end the Praxis core test requirement just months after a new law created a pathway letting teachers eschew the basic skills test. (Courtesy of the New Jersey Governor's Office) A bill ...

Before attorneys can practice law in Minnesota, they have to pass the bar exam. In fact, they have to pass a two-hour, 50-question exam just to be able to sit for the bar exam. Likewise, nurses have ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A new state law passed last year requires anyone who wants to be a new teacher in Minnesota to take what's called a basic skills test. But now, some are questioning whether that ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Doing the math -- that was the biggest stumbling block to students taking the state's new basic skills test. Results of the fifth and final administration of the Utah Basic ...

Interview: Sean Spiller, president of the New Jersey Education Association Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed into law the elimination of the Praxis Basic Skills test as a certification requirement for ...