New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and ...

NEW YORK — New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage ...

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Last month when the Board of Regents eliminated one of four core teacher certification exams, students at Clarkson University’s Schenectady-based teacher education program let out a sigh of relief.

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 ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Next week, the unpopular teacher ...

DECATUR - Sitting at a small table with literacy coach Debbie Roberts at Harris School, third-grader Katelynn Martin read a story aloud while Roberts timed her. At the end of 60 seconds, Roberts told ...