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 ...

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 ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially ...

White supremacist Democrats in the late 1800s created literacy tests for Black voters, but exempted illiterate white voters. Into the 1950s, the tests were used to stop educated Black voters from ...

Louisiana stopped requiring that prospective voters pass so-called literacy tests a half-century ago this summer, after the passage of the Voting Rights Act that banned the practice across the South.

Greg Thompson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The federal Labor government’s proposal to expand the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) franchise and ...