A New Jersey law that went into effect Jan. 1 to address an ongoing teacher shortage by eliminating certain testing required of aspiring teachers has created a social media frenzy of confusion amid ...

A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. “We need more teachers,” Democratic Sen.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

“We are creating a new generation of illiterates.” With those words, Robert Barnes, an official of the U.S. Department of Education, last week released a chilling analysis of a basic literacy test ...