Most tests that elementary teachers take to enter the profession don’t adequately measure their knowledge of best practices for reading instruction, a new analysis contends. The report, from the ...

An aspiring teacher (left) works with students in a first-grade classroom. Most candidates who take a commonly used licensing test fail on their first try, and a quarter never pass. Photo by Aaron ...

Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program ...

NEW JERSEY — A test required of new teachers is unnecessary, has a negative effect on Black and Hispanic teacher candidates, and is hampering New Jersey’s teacher workforce, some educators say. Nine ...