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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mississippi Department of Education this week released sample questions from a third-grade reading test that will determine the fate of some 38,000 students statewide. The Third-Grade Reading ...

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 ...

Alabama’s literacy tests were not the same for every test-taker. Notoriously, tests given to African-Americans tended to contain harder questions. Workbooks used in Citizenship School, where blacks ...

Re: "Selma: A turning point in U.S. history," Mar. 7 This story on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march in Alabama answers again the question of why the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is still important ...

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