Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. An aspiring teacher (left) works with students in a first-grade ...

Schools are required to test the progress of their English learners each year to determine whether they still need language instruction services or can exit out of such programs. In close to 40 states ...

Republican state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters says Oklahoma will roll out a new certification test "in two weeks or so" for teachers moving to Oklahoma from "left-wing" states. Walters gave the ...

Almost 3000 teaching students failed to pass a vital literacy test on the first go, meaning they’re outperformed by a typical ...

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 — ...

Teachers from “liberal” states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new assessment, to be given for the first time today, that “keeps away woke ...

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